Tinna

From Old Norse tinna (“flint”); also a variant of Tina.

Tinna f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Tinna: Tinnuson
• daughter of Tinna: Tinnudóttir

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *th₂in-, from the extension *teh₂y- of *teh₂- (“to dissolve, melt”). If so, it would be related to tinca (“tench”). Compare in any case the name of the river Tina.

Tinna f sg (genitive Tinnae); first declension

1. a river in Picenum that flows into the Adriatic Sea, now the Tenna

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Italian: Tenna
  • → English: Tenna

• “Picenum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992.