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tenna

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

Syllables
ten-na
IPA
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A river in Marche.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Tenna, from Latin Tinna, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *th₂i-n-, from an extension of *teh₂- (“to dissolve, melt”), via an unknown source language, perhaps Italic; compare Proto-Celtic *tīn (“river”). As such, possibly a doublet of Tyne and Teign.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does tenna mean?
A river in Marche.
Where does tenna come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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