different between mispay vs missay

English

mis- +? pay. Compare apay.

mispay (third-person singular simple present mispays, present participle mispaying, simple past and past participle mispaid)

From Middle English misseien, misseyen, misseggen, equivalent to mis- +? say. Cognate with Middle Dutch misseggen (“to missay”).

missay (third-person singular simple present missays, present participle missaying, simple past and past participle missaid)

(transitive, archaic) To speak ill of (someone).
(obsolete, intransitive) To say something erroneous; to speak wrongly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
  The worde gone out she backe againe would call, / As her repenting so to have missayd [...].

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