Cyen vs Eyen - What's the difference?
cyen | eyen |
* 1697 : [tr.], The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics and Æneis'', volume 1, ''The Second Book of the Georgics , “The Argument”,
(dialectal, or, obsolete) English plurals
:* So mote I brouke wel myne eyen tweye, Saue ye I herde neuere man so synge. — Chaucer, 1390
:* While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen .'' — Spenser, ''The Fairie Queen
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, genre=Fantasy
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, passage=But well are thine eyen set in thy head, wide apart, well opened, ...}}
As nouns the difference between cyen and eyen
is that cyen is obsolete spelling of lang=en while eyen is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.cyen
English
Noun
(en noun)lines 92–95(7th ed., 1748)
- From Roots hard Hazels, and from Cyens ri?e
Tall A?h, and taller Oak that mates the Skies?:
Palm, Poplar, Firr, de?cending from the Steep
Of Hills, to try the dangers of the Deep.