Where does “temse” come from?

temse (Middle English) comes from Old English Temes, from Latin Tamesis, from Proto-Brythonic *Tamesis.

temse (Middle English): a sieve

Definitions

  1. a sieve

Ancestry of “temse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old EnglishTemesthe River Thames
2LatinTamesisthe Thames a river in Britain that runs through London
3Proto-Brythonic*Tamesis—

Words derived from “temse”

Every word from Proto-Brythonic *Tamesis →Every word from Latin Tamesis →Every word from Old English Temes →