Teign
//ˈteɪn// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A river in Devon, England, which has its source on Dartmoor, flowing into the English Channel at Teignmouth.
Etymology
First attested as Old English Teng in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 739, probably from Proto-Celtic *tīn (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to flow”). As such, possibly a doublet of Tyne and Tenna.
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