pyne

See also: Pyne

English

Noun

pyne (plural pynes)

1. Obsolete form of pine.

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of pine.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəi.nə/

Noun

pyne

1. plural of pyn

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• pin, pine, pyn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːn(ə)/

Noun

pyne (plural pynes or pynen)

1. A painful punishment; torture:
   • c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Furſte dole: ſeruiſe”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1)‎, Worcestershire, folio 373, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2019 January 10:

     BI. daye ſũtyme. oþ᷑ beo niht. gedereþ in oure herte. alle seeke and ſoꝛe. þat wo. and pouert. þ^t poꝛe þoleþ. þe pyne þat pͥſons habbeþ. þer aliggen wıþ Iren heuye I.feteret. Nomeliche of þe cristene. þat beoþ in heþeneſſe. Sũme in prison. sũme in as muche wo. as Oxe is. oþer Aſſe.

     At some point in the day or night hold in your heart all the sick and grieving, the suffering and deprivation the poor endure, the torments that prisons contain, where [people] lie fettered with heavy iron, and especially the Christians who are in Heathendom: some in prison, and some in as much misery as an ox or a donkey.

   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.

Related terms

• pynen

Descendants

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

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• pigne, pine, pyn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːn(ə)/

Noun

pyne (plural pynes)

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

Related terms

• pynetre
• pynote

Descendants

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

References

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

Etymology 3

Verb

pyne

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