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Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish cen. Cognate with Irish gan.
Preposition
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 a land without a name.
Middle English
Noun
gyn
- trick
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
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 .