† thyne, adv. Sc. and north. dial. Obs.
(ðaɪn)
Forms: 4 þien, þein, þine, 4–6 thine, 4–7 thyne, 5 þeine, þeyn, 5–6 thyn, 6 thin.
[App. reduced from thethen; cf. hyne, syne, whyne.]
= thence. (Also prec. by fra, from.)
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 190 Þe templers ilk a dele failed & þien fled. 13.. Cursor M. 6676 (Gött.) If he to min auter fly, Men sal him þein [Cott. þeþen] draw to die. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints ii. (Paulus) 419 Fra þine þire banis men has tane. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) iv. 12 Fra þeine men wendes to þe ile of Cophos. c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 179 He..had hur thyne owr a grete watir in-to a noder contreth. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 4271 As a pilgryme pure..Forth fra þeyn he fore. 1513 Douglas æneis iii. x. 83 And fra thyne The fertile grownd of Helory passit syne. 1589 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 573/1 Beginnand..at the fute of the Skitterane burne..and fra thin streikand and ascendand up the said burne. a 1600 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 237 We weyd from thyn, and wald no langer byde. 1609 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 443 Fra thyne doun Irving burne to ask. |
Hence
† thyne-ˈforth (
-furth)
adv. = thenceforth;
† thyne-ˈforward adv. = thence-forward. Usually preceded by
from (
fra).
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxviii. (Adrian) 272 Fra *þine furth sal þu nocht me se. c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 51 And fro thyne furth, evur after..he had more devocion vnto Saynt Andrew þan he had befor. c 1440 Reg. Aberd. (Maitland) I. 248 Þe burn of Nessoke, swa þat theyn furth is þe meris betwix þe bischape and þe Lord of Marr. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 378 The said Congregatioun..shall in no wayis from thynefurth use ony force or violence, in casting down of kirkis. |
| c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxiv. 110 Þai schuld fra *þeine forward hald þam payd of þat he wald giffe þam. |