v.
Cl pres. 2 sg. tyneʒ, past sg. tynt; WA past 1 sg. tint, tynt, pp. tint
'to lose, destroy, ruin'
(Modern English tine, tyne)Always derived from ON, cp. týna 'to lose, destroy', a wk v. derived from the n. represented by OIcel tjón 'damage, loss' (< PGmc *teun-ōn, cp. OS tiono 'evil'). Cp. OE tēona 'injury, hurt, wrong' and tīnan 'vex, annoy, irritate', whose sense is quite different from the cognate verbal derivation in Scand.
PGmc Ancestor
*teunjan-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
týna 'to lose, destroy'
(ONP týna)
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far týna, Icel týna, Norw tyna, Dan tyne, Sw. dial tyna
OE Cognate
cp. tēona (n.) 'injury, hurt, wrong', tīnan 'vex, annoy, irritate'
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
C3
Common and widespread in ME; only N and Sc in MnE dial.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Pe 332; Cl 216, 775, 907; Pat 500, 505; WA 903, 2683, 2784 etc.