Pennines
Meanings
name
- A mountain range of hills stretching through north central England.
noun
- plural of pennine
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Usually connected to the Italian Apennines, originally borrowed from Latin Apenninus by Latin scribes and subsequently losing its initial A by rebracketing or aphesis. Alternatively, possibly derived directly from a Celtic language; by surface analysis, Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”) plus -ine.
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