gyn
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cen. Cognate with Irish gan.
Preposition
[edit]gyn
- without
- Cha daink rieau yn baase gyn leshtal.
- Death never came without an excuse.
- Çheer gyn çhengey, çheer gyn ennym.
- A land without a language [is] a land without a name.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]gyn
- trick
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxvi, verso:
- […] The hole wyth waxe, to kepe the limayle in / And vnderſtandeth that thys falſe gyn / was not made there […]
- […] the hole with wax to keep the filings in—and understand, this fake device wasn’t made there […] .