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Solent

so·lent

UK/ˈsəʊlənt/ uncommon

noun

1.

a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

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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”).

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