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Sounds like sign, sine, Seine, sane, sain · Rhymes with -aɪn

From Middle English syne, syn, sin, a contracted form of sithen (“since”). More at sithen.

Northern England, Scotland, not comparable Subsequently; then. At last he comes, and on his knee The wee tots a'thegether cling, An' ilk yen strives to catch his ee, Syne tugs his cwoat an' bids him sing.
Northern England, Scotland, not comparable Late. [Each rogue] shall be discovered either soon or syne.
Northern England, Scotland, not comparable Before now; ago. I eat, drink, and sleep as sound as I did twenty years syne; yes, I laugh heartily too, and find as many subjects to employ that faculty upon as ever; fools, fops, and knaves, grow as rank as formerly, yet here and there, […]

Northern England, Scotland Since. I've niver set fute i' Gibb's Ha' syne his father's death.