pyne – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of pyne

Noun: pyne
Sg.pyne
Pl.pynes; pynen

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • BI. daye ſũtyme. oþ᷑ beo niht. gedereþ in oure herte. alle seeke and ſoꝛe. þat wo. and pouert. þᵗ poꝛe þoleþ. þe pyne þat pͥſons habbeþ. þer aliggen wıþ Iren heuye I.feteret. Nomeliche of þe cristene. þat beoþ in heþeneſſe. Sũme in prison. sũme in as muche wo. as Oxe is. oþer Aſſe. (At some point in the day or night hold in your heart all the sick and grieving, the suffering and deprivation the poor endure, the torments that prisons contain, where [people] lie fettered with heavy iron, and especially the Christians who are in Heathendom: some in prison, and some in as much misery as an ox or a donkey.) [c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Furſte dole: ſeruiſe”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 373, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]

Etymology

Either from Old English *pīne (“pain”) or formed from pynen (“to torment”, Old English pīnian) in Middle English. Doublet of peyne. See: Old English Nouns '*pīne'.

Verbs referencing "pyne"

English Nouns pine.

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