1872 February 24, “The Export of Rice”, inThe Japan Weekly Mail: A Political, Commercial, and Literary Journal, volume III, number 8, Yokohama:ジャパンメール新聞社 [Japan Meru Shinbunsha],→OCLC,page 95, column 1:
Passing by those clauses of it which demand no notice, we arrive at that which provides that "each proposal (for purchase) must state the price per picul of rice in goldyen." But why in goldyen, a coin as yet so scarce as to be almost beyond the ken of the foreign merchant?
Does any one however believe that Japan's glorious achievements would have been possible, if the Government of that country had merely poured money like water on its standing battalions, unaugmented by reserves, and the magnificent spirit of every man, woman and child in that country had not been behind the Army to support it? Japan's ordinary budget for the Army is only about 37.3 millionsyen, or a little under six crores of rupees.
2011, Rei Kimura, chapter 7, inJapanese Orchid,[Bangkok?]: Bangkok Books,→ISBN,page38:
Taking the cue from his neighbours, Paul fed three 1000yen notes into a machine beside the TV screen and the silent screen immediately exploded into a kaleidoscope of colours and instructions in Japanese below at least twenty pictures of sexy girls.[…] Paul hesitated staring intently at the screen and the waiting girl while the 3,000yen he had fed into the machine steadily dwindled at the rate of 50yen a minute.
2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, inCNN Business[1]:
Micron said in a statement that it would bring extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology to Japan, becoming the first semiconductor company to do so, and expected to invest up to 500 billionyen ($3.6 billion) with support from the Japanese government.
2003,Richard Werner, “Preface”, inPrinces of the Yen: Japan’s Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy, Armonk, N.Y.:M. E. Sharpe,→ISBN:
When banks lend, they create money out of nothing, without withdrawing it from other parts of the economy. This way, fiscal policy would not have crowded out private-sector activityyen byyen, as actually happened.
A painting of an opium-smoker which used to hang in Ah Sing’s opium den onVictoria Street in London, England.
Origin uncertain, but probably fromCantonese癮 /瘾(jan5,“craving”) originally in reference to opium addiction,煙癮 /烟瘾(jin1 jan5) or菸癮 /烟瘾(jin1 jan5):煙 /烟(jin1),菸 /烟(jin1,“smoke,specificallyopium”). Compare the lateryen (“opium”) andyen-yen.[4]
1934, Lew Levenson, chapter XX, inButterfly Man, New York, N.Y.: Castle Books,→OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, [1960?],→OCLC,page 208:
She repeated the words: "You for me and me for you," then hummed: "Two for tea and tea for two …" Her voice trailed off … "All I got is ayen for Diana and my sweet little cute little Zigzag."
Like most middle-westerners, I have never had any but the vaguest race prejudices—I always had a secretyen for the lovely Scandinavian blondes who sat on porches in St. Paul but hadn’t emerged enough economically to be part of what was then society.
1955,J P Donleavy,The Ginger Man, published1955 (France), page342:
And Clocklan with a nurse for sure again. Always with nurses. Always with blonde hair. His maid has black and I guess he thrives on variety. And over there are some elderly ones with diamonds on their chests in lieu of the other things. Sometimes have ayen to get one of them in bed. Old age no object.
If a fellow chooses to tell himself that hisyen for the fetching young intern in his office and his concomitant disgruntlement with his aging wife's housekeeping lacunae make perfect Darwinian sense, who am I to argue with him?
[1876, F[rancis] K[ildale] Robinson,A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Whitby (Series C. Original Glossaries, and Glossaries with Fresh Additions; IV), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., 57 & 59,Ludgate Hill,→OCLC,page227:
"Listen, I'm in Tom Bleutcher's suite at The Brompton House. Been here the whole Almighty morning. Olga wants you to have lunch with us." / "Olga? Who's she?" / "His daughter. You made a big hit with her last time they was in town. Come on down." / "Get the new writer." / "I got no new writer. Anyway sheyens for you. Come on down."
C. S. Lewis warned, "The yen to publish is spiritually dangerous." The "yen" in this case is spread around, so perhaps the danger is diminished! This book has been "yenned" into existence by many, and is a two-team effort ….
Paul Black (2008), “Pronominal Accretions in Pama-Nyungan”, in Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Luisa Miceli, editors,Morphology and Language History (in Koko-Bera),→ISBN
Álvarez, José; Bravo, María (2008), “yen”, inDiccionario básico de la lengua añú [Basic dictionary of the Añú language][3], Maracaibo, Venezuela: University of Zulia,→ISBN, page108.
Eren, Hasan (1999), “yen”, inTürk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language][4] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi
“yeñ”, inTürkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu,1963–1982
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