teign
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 5
/ˈteɪn/
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/ˈteɪn/ · /ˈtiːn/
Definition of teign
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
- A river in Devon, England, which has its source on Dartmoor, flowing into the English Channel at Teignmouth.
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Etymology
First attested as Old English Teng in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 739, probably from Proto-Celtic *tīn (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to flow”). As such, possibly a doublet of Tyne and Tenna.
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