iynx

iynx (plural iynges)

1. Obsolete spelling of jynx. [19^th C.]

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “iynx”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• nixy

From the Ancient Greek ἴυγξ (íunx, “wryneck”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈi.yŋks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.iŋks]

iynx f (genitive iyngis); third declension

1. wryneck (bird)

Third-declension noun.

• → Translingual: Jynx
• → English: jynx, ⇒ jyngine

• “iynx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• iynx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “iynx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “iynx”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray