different between syne vs eyne

English

Etymology

From Middle English syne, syn, sin, a contracted form of sithen (“since”). More at sithen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?n/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /s?in/

Adverb

syne (comparative more syne, superlative most syne)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Subsequently; then. [from 14th c.]
   • 1866, Susanna Blamire, and Sidney Gilpin (ed.), Songs and Poems, page 17:

     At last he comes, and on his knee

     The wee tots a'thegether cling,

     An' ilk yen strives to catch his ee,

     Syne tugs his cwoat an' bids him sing.

   • 1894, Howard Pease, The Mark o' The Deil And Other Northumbrian Tales, page 20:

     Sic a pair o' friends aa nivvor seed either before or syne.
2. (Scotland, Northern England, chiefly in phrases like "soon as syne") Late.
   • W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace)

     [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne.

   • 1843, Walter Scott, Waverly, page 357:

     "I had rather it came to-morrow than a month hence. Come, I know, it will; and, as your country folks say, better soon than syne  […]

3. (Scotland, Northern England) Before now; ago. [from 16th c.]
   • 1808, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Sheperd, page 64:

     I eat, drink, and sleep as sound as I did twenty years syne; yes, I laugh heartily too, and find as many subjects to employ that faculty upon as ever; fools, fops, and knaves, grow as rank as formerly, yet here and there, […]

   • 1859, Old and Young, page 11:

     Camden Lyde had come to dwell in Mapleblade, a long while syne. His father had been in times past the parish parson, and the son was kindly affectionate to the old village scenes, and to the faces that seemed in some sort to belong to him } […]

Synonyms

• (subsequently): ensuingly, followingly; see also Thesaurus:then

Preposition

syne

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Since.
   • 1840, Howitt, Hope On, page ii:

     I've niver set fute i' Gibb's Ha' syne his father's death.

   • 1880, Banks, Wooers, III, i:

     Shoo's […] gitten fair pratty, syne Maister Allen gat wed.

See also

• auld lang syne

References

Anagrams

• NYSE, Neys, neys, nyes, snye, syen, yens

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch (de/het) zijne.

Pronoun

syne

1. his (that or those of him)

   Hy het my hemp aangehad en ek syne.

   He wore my shirt and I wore his.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sýna (“show”), derived from the noun sjón (“sight”), see Danish syn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sy?n?]

Verb

syne

1. to inspect (a car or other vehicle to determine whether it is fit for use)

2. to examine, appraise
3. (intransitive) to look, appear (seem to have a certain quality)
4. (intransitive) be visible

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

syne n

1. genitive form of syn

   komme til syne - to come into view

Verb

syne (present tense syner, past tense and past participle synet)

1. to appear,to become visible

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

syne n

1. kome til syne - to come into view

Verb

syne (present tense syner, past tense synte, past participle synt, passive infinitive synast, present participle synande, imperative syn)

1. Alternative form of syna

References

• “syne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English s?n, northern form of sithen, from Old English siþþan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?in/

Adverb

syne (not comparable)

1. afterwards, thereupon
2. thus, hence
3. since, ago

Derived terms

• lang syne

References

• “syne” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

English

Alternative forms

• eyen

Etymology

From Old English ?agan, plural of ?age.

Noun

eyne

1. (obsolete) plural of eye
   • 1605, The Trial of Chivalry (a play of uncertain unauthorship)

     Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]

Anagrams

• eeny, eyen, yeen