Solent

Solent

See also: solent

English

Etymology

From Old English Sol(u)ente, a pre-English name of obscure origin. The second element is seemingly Proto-Indo-European *auent- (“to wet, to spring”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsəʊlənt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊlənt

Proper noun

the Solent

  1. A strait separating Hampshire from the Isle of Wight in southern England.
    • 2019, Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Originals, page 13:
      One, two, three Victorian military forts in the Solent—an early indication they have a thing about foreign invasion down here.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ King, Anthony C. (2006), “CHAPTER 1 Venta Belgarum: What Is in the Name for Roman Winchester?”, in The Land of the English Kin: Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke‎[1], page 18

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