Vinteen

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English Fenton, from Old English fenn (“fen, marsh”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪnˈtiːn/

Proper noun

Vinteen

1. a surname, equivalent to English Finton
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Thou leeesth if thou wasth Saan Vinteen, an Saan Vinteen agyne.

     Thou liest if thou wast St. Finton, and St. Finton again.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52