gyn

See also: GYN and gyn-

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cen. Cognate with Irish gan.

Preposition

gyn

1. 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 [is] a land without a name.

Middle English

Noun

gyn

1. trick
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [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 […] .