e'en

• IPA^(key): /iːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn

e'en

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even.

e'en

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even.

e'en

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even.

• In poetry, used especially for the sake of metre.
• May be used for all senses of even.

• -ene, ENE, Nee, nee, née

From Middle English even, from Old English efn, from Proto-West Germanic *ebn.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːn/
• Homophone: een

e'en

1. even
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 4-6:

     Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.

     Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116