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Scots
Proper noun
Elphyne
- Alternative form of Elfame
1583, Robert Sempill, Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation, Vol. 1, page 365:Ane carling of the quene of phareis, That ewill win geir to elphyne careis (Poem 45, v.372)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- “Elphyne”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 30 January 2017, reproduced from William A Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.