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styen

styen noun: stone.

Noun

styen (uncountable)

  1. (Northumbria) stone
    • Huge abutments o' styen, aw think they are call'd1827, T. Thompson, quoting "A Pitman", “Shields Chain Bridge”, in A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect: And Illustrative of the Language and...
    • Ye wad thought his feet was myed o' styen, He gaw sic thuds wi' dancin-o1827, T. Thompson, “Wreckenton Hiring”, in A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect: And Illustrative of the Language and Manners of the Common...

Origin of styen

From Northern Middle English stan, stane, from Old English stān, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Cognate with German Stein, Swedish sten, Dutch steen.

Questions about styen

What does styen mean?
Styen means stone.
What part of speech is styen?
Styen is a noun.

Words near styen in the dictionary

  1. Stydia
  2. stye
  3. styed
  4. styelid
  5. styelids
  6. styen
  7. Styer
  8. Styers
  9. styes
  10. styey
  11. styfsiekte

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