English
Solent
Solent comes from Old English Sol(u)ente.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Sol(u)ente
- Englishearliest quotation 2019Solent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Sol(u)ente
- Englishearliest quotation 2019Solent
Earliest quotation: 2019, Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff: “One, two, three Victorian military forts in the Solent—an…”
The story
The second element is seemingly Proto-Indo-European *auent- (‘to wet, to spring’).
Every English word from Old English Sol(u)ente
Today it means
name A strait separating Hampshire from the Isle of Wight in southern England.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English Sol(u)ente / Solent