† thyneadv.

/ðʌɪn/

Forms: Middle English þien, þein, þine, Middle English–1500s thine, Middle English–1600s thyne, Middle English þeine, þeyn, Middle English–1500s thyn, 1500s thin.

Etymology: Apparently reduced < thethen adv.; compare hyne, syne, whyne.

Scottish and northern dialect. Obsolete.

= thence adv. (Also preceding by fra, from.)

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adverb] > from that place

thennec725

thethenc1175

thethenwardc1175

thenward?c1225

therefroma1250

thencec1290

thereforth1297

therehencec1300

thynec1330

therefro1340

thencewardc1440

thenceforthc1449

thence-froma1618

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 190 Þe templers ilk a dele failed & þien fled.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6676 If he to min auter fly, Men sal him þein [Vesp. þeþen] draw to die.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) iv. 12 Fra þeine men wendes to þe ile of Cophos.

c1440 Alphabet of Tales 179 He..had hur thyne owr a grete watir in-to a noder contreth.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 4271 As a pilgryme pure..Forth fra þeyn he fore.

c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 419 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 41 Fra þine þire banis men has tane.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. x. 83 And fra thyne The fertile grownd of Helory passit syne.

1589 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 573/1 Beginnand..at the fute of the Skitterane burne..and fra thin streikand and ascendand up the said burne.

a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 237 We weyd from thyn, and wald no langer byde.

1609 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 443 Fra thyne doun Irving burne to ask.

Derivatives

† thyne-ˈforth adv. (also thyne-furth) Obsolete = thenceforth adv.

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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > thereafter or after that

thoc700

thenforthc875

thereafterc897

fro ðan ðatc1175

thethenforthc1175

thenforthwardc1200

thereup?c1225

from?a1366

thencec1374

thenceforthc1374

fromwardc1400

thyne-forwardc1400

sin1405

thyne-forthc1440

thenceforward1457

sinsyne1470

thenafter1470

then afterwarda1485

upon?1523

sineth1542

thence-after1593

thenceforwards1684

thereafterward1867

c1440 Alphabet of Tales 51 And fro thyne furth, evur after..he had more devocion vnto Saynt Andrew þan he had befor.

c1440 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 248 Þe burn of Nessoke, swa þat theyn furth is þe meris betwix þe bischape and þe Lord of Marr.

c1480 (a1400) St. Adrian 272 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 279 Fra þine-furth sal þu nocht me se.

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 378 The said Congregatioun..shall in no wayis from thynefurth use ony force or violence, in casting down of kirkis.

† thyne-ˈforward adv. Obsolete = thenceforward adv. Usually preceded by from (fra).

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