tyne

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/taɪn/Geordie/tɛin/

noun

anxiety; teen

OriginOld English Tīna ← Proto-Celtic *tīn ← Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- →
CommonScrabble 7
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Meanings

tyne1

noun
  1. obsoleteanxiety; teen

    with labour and long tyne

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15
verbtyne (third-person singular simple present tynes, present participle tyning, simple past and past participle tyned)

present singular third person tynes · participle present tyning · participle past tyned · past tyned

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo lose.

    ‘Yes, bonny wee thing, I’ll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne.’

    1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
  2. intransitiveobsoleteTo become lost; to perish.

tyne2

nountyne (plural tynes)

plural tynes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tine.

Tyne3

proper noun
  1. A river in the counties of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear, in north east England. The city of Newcastle upon Tyne is found upon its northern bank and Gateshead is found upon its southern bank.
  2. A coastal sea area that includes the mouth of this river
  3. A river in East Lothian council area, in southern Scotland.

Origin

tyne · noun, verb

See teen.

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Tyne · proper noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*teh₂-“to flow”
  2. Proto-Celtic*tīn“river”
  3. Old EnglishTīna
  4. EnglishTyne

From Old English Tīna or Tīne, attested as a component of the place name Tinanmuþe (“Tynemouth”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *tīn (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to flow”). As such, possibly a doublet of Teign and Tenna. Also compare Latin Tina.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 泰恩河, 泰恩
  • 泰恩河 (Tài'ēn hé)river
  • 泰恩 (Tài'ēn)river
Dutch Tyne
  • Tyneriver
French Tyne
  • Tyneriver
German Tyne
  • Tyneriver
Japanese タイン川, タイン
  • タイン川 (Tain-gawa)river
  • タイン (Tain)river
Latin Tina
  • Tinariver
Russian Тайн
  • Тайн (Tajn)river

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with tyne

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Sounds the same

tineTynetineTynetineTynetine

Anagrams

nyetenty
Cite this entry
APA

tyne. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tyne

MLA

“tyne.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tyne. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tyne,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tyne.

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