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Tinanmuþ

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Tīna (River Tyne) +‎ mūþ (mouth)

Proper noun

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Tinanmuþ m

  1. Tynemouth (a town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England), formerly in Northumbria
    • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
      Ōsrēd, þe wæs Norþanhymbra cining, æfter wræcsīþe hām cumenum ġelǣht wæs ⁊ ofslagen on XVIII Kƚ Octoƀ ⁊ his līc liġþ æt Tīnamūþe. ⁊ Æþelrēd cining feng tō nīwan wīfe, sēo wæs Ælflēd ġehāten, on III Kƚ Octobr̃.
      Osred, who was king of Northumbria, was apprehended and slain on the 17th of October after coming home from his exile, and his body lies at Tynemouth. And King Aethelred took a new wife, whose name was Aelfled, on the third of October.

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative Tīnanmūþ
accusative Tīnanmūþ
genitive Tīnanmūþes
dative Tīnanmūþe