Etymology

Tynemouth

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Today it means: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, historically in Northumberland (OS grid ref NZ3769). Full definition →

Middle English Tynemouth ← Old English Tīnanmūþe
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromTīnanmūþe
  2. Middle English · inherited fromTynemouth
  3. English todayTynemouth

Inherited from Middle English Tynemouth, Tynemouthe, from Old English Tīnanmūþe (literally “at the Tyne's mouth”); equivalent to the River Tyne + mouth.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.