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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryplural of ey (“egg”)
From Middle English eyren, alteration of earlier eyre (“eggs”), from Old English ǣġru (“eggs”), plural of ǣġ (“egg”), equivalent to ey + -ren. Compare Dutch eieren (“eggs”), German Eier (“eggs”).
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