pyne

pyne (plural pynes)

1. Obsolete form of pine.

pyne (third-person singular simple present pynes, present participle pyning, simple past and past participle pyned)

1. Obsolete form of pine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəi.nə/

pyne

1. plural of pyn

Either from Old English *pīne (“pain”) or formed from pynen (“to torment”, Old English pīnian) in Middle English. Doublet of peyne.

• pin, pine, pyn

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːn(ə)/

pyne (plural pynes or pynen)

1. A painful punishment; torture:
   1. Damnation; punishment for sinning.
   2. (rare) Imprisonment, incarceration.
2. Hardship, torment, suffering:
   1. Physical pain; aching.
   2. Mental distress, anguish.
   3. Arduousness, challenge,
   4. (religion, uncommon) Penance, atonement.

• pynen

• English: pine (archaic)
• Middle Scots: pyne
  • Scots: pine

• “pīne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English *pīne, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pine tree”), from Latin pīnus (“pine tree”).

• pigne, pine, pyn

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːn(ə)/

pyne (plural pynes)

1. pine tree
2. pinenut, pine nut
3. (rare) pinecone

• pynetre
• pynote

• English: pine
• Middle Scots: pyne
  • Scots: pine

• “pīne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

pyne

1. alternative form of pynen (“to injure”)