kyan

kyan (uncountable)

1. (obsolete)
   1. Alternative spelling of cayenne (in compounds such as “kyan pepper” and “kyan butter”).
      • 1804, John Jackson, Reflections on the Commerce of the Mediterranean‎^[1], page 92:

        Take half a pound of black pepper, half a pound of red or kyan pepper, and half a pound of the best saltpetre, all beat or ground very fine; mix these three well together, then mix them with about three quarts of very fine salt: this mixture is sufficient for eight hundred weight of beef.

   2. A hot sauce prepared from cayenne pepper.
      • 1829, Piscator [pseudonym], “Fly-fishing in Wales—Letter III”, in Sporting Magazine‎^[2], volume 24, number October 1829, page 406:

        Not but that a grilled salmon, with a spoonful or two of Burgess’s new sauce, and a small matter of genuine kyan, is a mighty pleasant thing after half a dozen hours’ fishing, with the mountain-breeze blowing briskly in one’s face, and creating an appetite that might relish (almost) a smoked fox.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪjan]

kyan m inan

1. cyanogen

• “kyan”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kyan”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “kyan”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Derived from English can.

• IPA^(key): /kjã/

kyan

1. can

   Im kyan swim.

   He can swim.

   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 7:25:

     Piipl kyan kom tu Gad siek-a im an im kyan siev dem piipl de fi eva an eva. Im kyan siev dem fi eva kaaz im naa ded so im kyan aalwiez taak tu Gad fi dem.

     As a result he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, living always to plead their case on their behalf.

     (literally, “People can come to God through Him, and He can save the people forever. He can save them forever because he died so that he can always talk to God for them.”)

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