Solent
Meanings
name
- A strait separating Hampshire from the Isle of Wight in southern England.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Old English Solentan, ultimately of unknown origin. Among the range of suggestions include: * a relationship with sol (“mud, wet sand”). * Bede's form Soluente suggests the second element was an pre-Celtic Proto-Indo-European *auent- (“to wet, to spring”).
Derived words
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