Old English

Alternative forms

• scēne, scēone, scīne, scīene, scīone

Adjective

scȳne

1. beautiful, fair, bright

   • Hyrsta scýne, bord and brád swyrd, brúne helmas — Judith (excellent/beautiful gear, shield and broad sword, brown helmen)
   • relying for its effect on the audience’s understandings of the meanings ælf and scyne ... — Alaric Hall, The Meanings of Elf, and Elves, in Medieval England, 2004

2. brilliant, light, shining

Derived terms

• ælfscȳne — beautiful, beauty

Descendants

• Middle English: shone

References

1. 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", scyne, scīene
2. Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), scyne, scīne