As described in historical dictionaries

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

DYNE. Anciently Dine. INIight come from the Fr. diyue, worthy. There is a statement, however, I know not of what authority, that the family were identical with the Dyves, who came into England from Normandy -with the Conqueror. Do Dine. II. R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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