Sentence examples for Singan from inspiring English sources

The Northern infinitive was already one syllable (sing rather than the Old English singan), whereas the past participle -en inflection of Old English was strictly kept.

One type of verb stem, called vocalic because an internal vowel shows variations, is exemplified by the verb for "sing": singan, singth, sang, sungon, gesungen.

His Scots poems seldom achieve the naturalness of Garioch, or even MacDiarmid (who made exquisite poetry from synthetic Scots), but his songs frequently express the simplicity which friends say was a marked aspect of Hay's character: As I cam doon by Garvalt side upon an early mornin' tide, the levrocks i the lift sae wide were singan oh sae cheery, oh.