eyen
/aɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.39 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen."
- "But well are thine eyen set in thy head, wide apart, well opened, […]"
- "Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light of a lamp lit somewhere within."
- "Sweet and benign mediatrix, Thine eyen of grace on us thou cast, Since thou art queen of paradise, And let not our hope be in waste, But show us thy Son at the last, Since we do sing and say to thee, ‘Maria, spes nostra, salue.’"
Etymology
From Middle English eyen, iȝen (plural of eie, besides rarer eyes), 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); equivalent to eye + -en (plural ending)