Cyn-ren

According to the Old English Dictionary:

cyn-ren

Add: I. a family, stock, race:--Mid cynrene, mǽgþeprosapia, An. Ox. 1297: 1664. Hé ne gecýst nú be nánum cynrene, ac of ǽlcere mǽgðe, Hml. A. 17, 85. Of módignesse cynrene, R. Ben. 22, 14. Wé gesáwon Enachis cynryn (stirpem), Num. 13, 29. Bisceophád sceolde of manegan cynrynan áspringan, Wlfst. 176, 12. II. progeny:--Tó kenninge ðæs cynrenes ad usum generis, Past. 97, 10. Eówre wíto and eówres cinrenes (seminis tui) wíto, Deut. 28, 59. III. a nation:--Dryhten rínað ofer eall cynrynu (gentes), Ps. Th. 46, 8. IV. a kind, species:--Synderlicere cynrene singulari (tincturae) genere, An. Ox. 1057. Syx synt muneca cynerena, R. Ben. 134, 3. Ðysse wyrte syndon twá cynrenu, Lch. i. 298, 5. Twá cynnryno unrótnesse, Nap. 15. Ðú fyldest þás eorþan mid mistlicum cynrenum nétena, Bt. 33, 4; F. 132, 26.

Related words: fore-, wyrt-cynren. cyn-ren