Severn

From Middle English Severne, from Old English Sæfern, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *Sabrinā (compare Welsh Hafren), perhaps from *samaros (“summer fallow”). Doublet of Sabrina.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ə(ɹ)n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsev.ən/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ɚn/
• Homophone: seven (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)n

Severn

1. A river of England and Wales that flows into the Bristol Channel.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XIX, page 32:

     There twice a day the Severn fills,
     ⁠The salt sea-water passes by,
     ⁠And hushes half the babbling Wye,
     And makes a silence in the hills.

2. A long river in northern Ontario which flows into Hudson Bay.
3. A short river in central Ontario which flows into Lake Huron.
4. A number of other rivers in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
5. A township in Ontario, Canada, created in 1994 on the amalgamation of several smaller communities.
6. A census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
7. A small town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States.
8. A surname.

• Nevers, Vernes, nerves, nevers

From Latin Sabrina, from Proto-Celtic *Sabrinā.

Severn m

1. Severn