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Middle English
Adjective
alkyns
- alkin: Of all or every kind; all kinds or sorts of; intermingled and various
a. 1400? (transcribed c. 1440), James Orchard Halliwell, editor, Morte Arthure. The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur. Now First Printed from a Manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral., Brixton Hill : for private circulation only, published 1847, →OCLC, page 271, lines 3244–3245:Enhorilde with arborye and alkyns trees, / Erberis fulle honeste, and byrdez there undyre; […]- Surrounded with shrubbery and all kinds of trees, / Gardens ever so gorgeous, and birds beneath;
Swedish
Noun
alkyns
- indefinite genitive singular of alkyn
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