eyne

• eyen

From Middle English eien, plural of eie, from Old English ēagan, plural of ēage.

eyne

1. (archaic) plural of eye
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.

   • 2013, Farrukh Ahmad, translated by Yasmin Faruque, “The Celestial Captain”, in The Sailor of the Seven Seas, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:

     A night as dense as honey, peaceful, dreamy and enticing / Bringing to thine eyne tears of deep emotion / The weary she-parrot slumbers / As does the fading narcissus; […]

• eeny, eyen, yeen