yslain

Inherited from Middle English yslayn. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• enPR: ĭ′slān′
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɪˈsleɪ̯n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɪˈslæɪ̯n/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌəˈslæɪ̯n/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌɪˈslen/
• (India) IPA^(key): (pane–pain merger) /ˌɪˈsleːn/; (without the pane–pain merger) /ˌɪˈslɛjn/, /ˌɪˈsleː(j)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Hyphenation: y‧slain

yslain (obsolete)

1. past participle of slay
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 464:

     But fame now flies, that of a forreine foe ¶ He is yſlaine, which is the ground of all our woe.

• anisyl, inlays, lay-ins, layins, snaily