byen

A dialectal reflex of Northern Middle English bone, featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

byen (plural byens)

1. (Geordie) bone
   • 1840, R. Emery, “Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water”, in The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect‎, →ISBN, page 303:

     Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—

• enby

byen c

1. definite singular of by

From French bien (“well”).

• IPA^(key): /bjɛ̃/

byen

1. well

• IPA^(key): /bjen/

byen

1. to clean

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

From French bien.

byen

1. good

byen

1. well

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

• bien, biggen, buggen

From Old English bycġan, from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːən/

byen

1. to buy

• English: buy
• Scots: by
• Yola: bidge

• “bīen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

byen m

1. definite singular of by

byen m

1. definite singular of by

From French bien.

byen

1. good

byen

1. well

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français