e'en
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e'en
Usage notes edit
- In poetry, used especially for the sake of metre.
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Etymology edit
From Middle English even, from Old English efn, from Proto-West Germanic *ebn.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /iːn/
- Homophones: ing, een
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e'en
- even
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 4-6:
- Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.
- Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 116