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Pennines.

A mountain range of hills stretching through north central England.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

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  1. A mountain range of hills stretching through north central England.

Where this word comes from

Usually connected to the Italian Apennines, originally borrowed from Latin Apenninus by Latin scribes and subsequently losing its initial A by rebracketing or aphesis. Alternatively, possibly derived directly from a Celtic language; by surface analysis, Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”) plus -ine.

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