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Een

//iːn// adv, noun

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    even. Northern-England, dialectal, not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of eye Northern-England, Scotland, archaic, form-of, plural

    "And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne"

  2. 2
    evening. Scotland, dialectal, poetic

Etymology

Etymology 1

From a contraction of even.

Etymology 2

From even (“evening”).

See also for "een"

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