Etymology

byen

B3Y4E1N1

Today it means: bone Full definition →

Northern Middle English bane
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  1. Northern Middle English · inherited frombane“bone”
  2. English todaybyen

A dialectal reflex of Northern Middle English bane (“bone”), featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.