Eyen
//aɪn// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 plural of eye archaic, dialectal, form-of, plural
"While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen."
Example
More examples"While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen."
Etymology
From Middle English eyen, iȝen (plural of eie, besides rarer eyes), from Old English ēagan (nominative plural of ēage), from Proto-West Germanic *augōn (nominative plural of *augā), from Proto-Germanic *augōnō (nominative plural of *augô); equivalent to eye + -en (plural ending)
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