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Een vs Been - What's the difference?

een | been |

As a numeral een

is one.

As a noun been is

leg or been can be bone as a material.

een

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)
  • (Scotland, Northern England, and, archaic)
    • References
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    Etymology 2

    From a contraction of even.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (dialectal, Northern England) even.
    • een seea

    Etymology 3

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic, or, dialectal, Scotland) evening.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    been

    English

    (wikipedia been)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) ybe (see y-).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) were
    • Assembled been a senate grave and stout. — Fairfax.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) been, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (head)

    • See also

    * for forms of be

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    *

    References

    Vaux, Bert and Scott Golder. 2003. The Harvard Dialect Survey: been. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Linguistics Department. English auxiliary verb forms English irregular past participles English terms with homophones ----