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cyn-ren

  • noun [ neuter ]
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cyn-ren, cyn-ryn,es; n. [cyn a kindred, race, nation, family, generation; ren, ryn a course]
A family course, family, generation, kind, nation, posterity; generatio, genus, natio, progenies, propago
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  • He forlét his ríce and his cynren

    he left his country and his family,

    • Bt. 38,
      • 1;
    • Fox 194,
      • 27.

  • Cynren

    generatio,

    • Wrt. Voc. 72,
      • 49.

  • Ðis ys Thares cynryn

    this is the generation of Terah,

    • Gen. 11,
      • 27.

  • On cynrynum cynrena [MS. kynrynum kynrena]

    in generationes generationum,

    • Ps. Lamb. 71,
      • 5.

  • On ðam fiftan dæge úre Drihten gesceóp ða mycelan hwalas on heora cynrynum

    on the fifth day our Lord created the great whales with their kinds,

    • Hexam. 8
      • ;
    • Norm. 14,
      • 8.

  • Fisc sceal on wætere cynren cennan [MS. cynran cennen]

    a fish shall propagate, his kind in the water,

    • Menol. Fox 515
      • ;
    • Gn. C. 28
      • .

  • Cynrenu

    genera,

    • Scint. 53
      • .

  • Ic andette ðé on cynrenum [cynrenon MS.], Drihten

    confitebor tibi in nationibus, Domine,

    • Ps. Spl. 17,
      • 51.

  • Lá ge nædrena cynryn

    progenies viperarum,

    • Mt. Bos. 12,
      • 34.

  • Cynren

    propago,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 91
      • ;
    • Som. 75,
      • 17;
    • Wrt. Voc. 51,
      • 62.
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v.  cæn-ryn cyne-ren cyn-ryn.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cyn-ren.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/7166.

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