caroyne

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === carayne, carein, caren, careyn, careyne, careyng, caroigne, caroine, caronye, kareyn, karyn cayrayne (County Durham); charoine (AB language); caranye (Promptorium Parvulorum); coroigne (West Riding) careon, carion, carioun, carryen, caryon, caryone, karyun (especially Northern or North Midland) carioune, caryown, caryowne, karyowne (Early Scots) === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Northern French caroigne, carogne (charoine reflects central Old French charoigne), from Vulgar Latin *carōnia. Variants with /æi̯/ probably represent the initial stage of vowel reduction; compare Boleyne, Coleyne, variants of Boloyne (“Boulogne”), Coloyne (“Cologne”), while /kariˈuːn(ə)/, /ˈkarjun(ə)/ are either hypercorrection based on the analogy of words like merleyn, variant of merlioun or, more likely, represent metathesis of the last element of the diphthong /ui̯/. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈrui̯n(ə)/ IPA(key): /ˈkaræi̯n(ə)/, /ˈkarɛn(ə)/, /ˈkarin(ə)/ (with reduction) IPA(key): /kariˈuːn(ə)/, /ˈkarjun(ə)/ (especially Northern or North Midland) === Noun === caroyne (uncountable) A corpse; a dead human body. Carrion; rotting flesh or corpses. (derogatory) That which lacks value or inspires disgust. One's body or mortal form. One's human or fleshly inclinations. ==== Descendants ==== English: carrion Middle Scots: carioun Scots: carrion ==== References ==== “careine, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700‎[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 308, page 878. “carioun, carion, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.