eyen

From Middle English eien, eyen, iȝen (nominative plural of eie), from Old English ēagan (nominative plural of ēage), from Proto-West Germanic *augōn (nominative plural of *augā), from Proto-Germanic *augōnō (nominative plural of *augô).

• IPA^(key): /aɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn
• Homophone: Ayn

eyen

1. (dialectal or obsolete) plural of eye
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen.

   • 1897, William Morris, “Chapter VII. Birdalone Hath an Adventure in the Wood”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005:

     But well are thine eyen set in thy head, wide apart, well opened, […]

• eeny, eyne, yeen

eyen

1. Alternative form of eien

eyen

1. Alternative form of ieen
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 10:

     th' oure eyen dwytheth apan ye Vigere o'dicke Zouvereine, Wilyame ee Vourthe,

     that our eyes rest upon the representative of that Sovereign, William IV.,

• 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 114