e'en

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /iːn/ Rhymes: -iːn === Adjective === e'en (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even. === Verb === e'en (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even. === Adverb === e'en (poetic, archaic) Contraction of even. ==== Usage notes ==== In poetry, used especially for the sake of metre. May be used for all senses of even. === Derived terms === === Anagrams === -ene, ENE, Nee, nee, née == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English even, from Old English efn, from Proto-West Germanic *ebn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛːn/ Homophone: een === Adverb === e'en even === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116