singan

Thus, singan (= to sing) became ne singan (= not to sing).

Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 8. The Double Negative Henry Louis 1921

The sing of I sing is the correspondent of the Anglo-Saxon singe; the infinitive sing, of singan; the imperative sing of sing.

Chapter 2. The Elements of Speech 1921

Alternations like sing, sang, sung (Anglo-Saxon singan, sang, sungen) were ingrained in the linguistic consciousness.

Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

So he had a hoard of words, you see: and he must have needed them, for he goes on: —For [char1] on ic maeg singan and secgan spell,

III. On the Difference between Verse and Prose 1916