dynen

dynen c

1. definite singular of dyne

From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, contraction of disieiūnāre. Doublet of dyner, from the same Old French word used substantively.

• dyne, dinen

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːnən/

dynen

2. To eat lunch (the midday meal)
3. To dine; to eat a meal.
4. To eat; to consume food.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Sompners Tale”, 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:

     What wol ye dine?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (rare) To feed; to serve food.

• dyner

• English: dine
• Scots: dine

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

Inherited from Old English dynian, dynnan, from Proto-West Germanic *dunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną.

• denen, donen, dunnyn, dynnen
• denie, dunien (early Southern)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdinən/

dynen

2. To make a noise; to resound.
3. To be filled with noise; to resound.
4. (rare) To yell; to scream.

• dyne

• English: dun, din
• Middle Scots: dyn, din

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

• dyna

dynen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of dyne

dynen m

1. definite singular of dyne

dynen c

1. definite singular of dyn