Tyning is a name-element occurring commonly in north-east
Somerset, England
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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- most of all in the
Bath
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* Bathing, immersion in a fluid
** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body
** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe
* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
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area, though also as far as
Cheddar in the south-west, and over the borders into
Wiltshire and
Gloucestershire. It is used of three
woodlands, of several farms, and also in at least a score of
street
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names, as well as the names of schools in Staple Hill and in Henbury in
Bristol (e.g
The Tynings School, and in the name used of a part of the town of Radstock. There are outlying uses in Sussex and Ulster, and in street names in Droitwich, Walsall, and Wolverhampton.
The manner of its use suggests that it is or was a
common noun, but its meaning is obscure.
The word may derive from the meaning to "enclose with a hedge or fence; to fence, to hedge in" given for the verb 'tine' or 'tyne' in the
Oxford English Dictionary 2nd edition.
Richard Verstegan (aka Rowlands), ''A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence'' (1605) gives the usages
''“Betyned. Hedged-about. ee vse yet in some partes of England, to say tyning for hedging.”''
[Lexicons of Early Modern English. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Library and University of Toronto Press, 2006. Non-finalized entry. Date consulted: 21 July 2012. URL: leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicon/entry.cfm?ent=281-76] However, it does not appear in the
Oxford English Dictionary, in Chambers, or in the Linguistic Atlas of England ''(Orton &c, Leeds University Press, London, 1978)''.
Pevsner (''The Buildings of England: Bristol and North Somerset'', Penguin, 1958) mentions it only in passing, to refer to an
Iron Age long barrow at Tyning Farm, Cheddar.
References
Names of places in the United Kingdom
Geography of Somerset
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