syn-Eとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /saɪn/
• Homophone: sign, sine
• (Scotland) IPA: /səin/
• 異形同音異義語: Seine, sane, sain,
• 韻: -aɪn

副詞

syne (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Subsequently; then. [from 14th c.]
   • 1866, Susanna Blamire, edited by Sidney Gilpin, Songs and Poems, page 17:

     At last he comes, and on his knee
     The wee tots a'thegether cling,
     An' ilk yen strives to catch his ee,
     Syne tugs his cwoat an' bids him sing.

   • 1894, Howard Pease, The Mark o' The Deil And Other Northumbrian Tales, page 20:

     Sic a pair o' friends aa nivvor seed either before or syne.

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), Polygon, published 2006, page 38:

     Yet in two-three years they'd chaved and saved enough for gear and furnishings, and were married at last, and syne Will was born, and syne Chris herself was born, and the Guthries rented a farm in Echt […] .

2. (Scotland, Northern England, chiefly in phrases like "soon as syne") Late.
   • W. Hamilton (Life of Wallace)

     [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne.

   • 1843, Walter Scott, Waverly, page 357:

     "I had rather it came to-morrow than a month hence. Come, I know, it will; and, as your country folks say, better soon than syne  […]

3. (Scotland, Northern England) Before now; ago. [from 16th c.]
   • 1808, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Sheperd, page 64:

     I eat, drink, and sleep as sound as I did twenty years syne; yes, I laugh heartily too, and find as many subjects to employ that faculty upon as ever; fools, fops, and knaves, grow as rank as formerly, yet here and there, […]

   • 1859, Old and Young, page 11:

     Camden Lyde had come to dwell in Mapleblade, a long while syne. His father had been in times past the parish parson, and the son was kindly affectionate to the old village scenes, and to the faces that seemed in some sort to belong to him […]

同意語

• (subsequently): ensuingly, followingly; see also Thesaurus:then

前置詞

syne

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Since.
   • 1840, Howitt, Hope On, page ii:

     I've niver set fute i' Gibb's Ha' syne his father's death.

   • 1880, Wooers, Banks, III, i:

     Shoo's […] gitten fair pratty, syne Maister Allen gat wed.

参考

• auld lang syne

参照

アナグラム

• nyes, Nyes, syen, neys, NYSE, snye, yens, Neys