Temse

• Temes, Temese, Tempse, Themse, Themese, Themise
• Tæmese (Early Middle English); Temmys (Late Middle English); Temze, Temeze (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• Tames, Tamese, Tamis, Tamise, Tammes, Tamyse, Thamyse (especially East Saxon, Kent, West Midland)

From the oblique forms of Old English Temes, from Latin Tamesis, potentially from Proto-Celtic *tamesās.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛməz(ə)/, /ˈtɛmz(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtaməz(ə)/, /ˈtamz(ə)/ (East Saxon, Kent, West Midland)

Temse

1. The Thames (river in SE England, notably having London on its bank)

• English: Thames
• Middle Scots: Themes
• → Old French: Tamise
  • French: Tamise
• → Middle Welsh: Temys, Tems

• “Temese, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 April 2018.
• Ackerman, Robert W. (1952), “TEMSE”, in An Index of the Arthurian Names In Middle English (Stanford University Publications, University Series; Language and Literature; 10), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →OCLC, page 228; republished at New York: AMS Press, 1967.
• Ekwall, Eilert (1928), “Thames”, in English River-Names, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 403.