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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA: /tiːn/^(Roach et al. 2011)
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+ {{homograph|1|teenager}}
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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=clipping|attested=1673}}
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The modern word is from [[-teen]], the ending of the numbers thirteen to nineteen,^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002) later felt as a shortening of [[teenager]], which is a younger word.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ ''Teens'', the years of a person's life from thirteen to nineteen: 1673 in the OED.^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ A young person in their teens is from 1818, though rare before the 20th century and now chiefly North American.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The adjective, of or for teenagers, is from 1947.^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) The teens of a century or a temperature scale are also so called.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 1673 – ''teens'', years of age.^(OED 1989)
+ * 1818 – a teenager.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)
+ * 1947 – the adjective.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Modern meaning==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[teenager]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)
+ # ''(teens)'' The years of one's age from thirteen to nineteen; also the numbers 13 to 19.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)
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+ ===Adjective===
+ # ''(informal)'' Teenage: ''teen fashion''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)
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+ {{homograph|2|grief, harm (obsolete)}}
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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=971}}
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The old word is Middle English tene, [[inh|ang|tēona|t=injury, anger, grief]],^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) akin to Old Frisian tiona “injury”, Old Saxon tiono and Old Norse tjón “loss”.^(MWU 2024)^(Collins 2023) The verb is Old English tēonian “to afflict”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Harm inflicted or suffered, injury: 971 in the OED.^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Irritation, anger or spite is from about 1200, and affliction, grief or woe from about 1290, now archaic.^(OED 1989) It is now obsolete except in Scots and northern dialect,^(SOED 2002)^(Collins 2023) where the verb meant to irritate or anger.^(SOED 2002)^(Wright 1898)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 971 – harm, injury.^(OED 1989)
+ * c. 1200 – anger, vexation.^(OED 1989)
+ * c. 1290 – grief, woe.^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Modern meaning==
+ ===Noun===
+ # ''(archaic)'' Grief, [[sorrow]] or affliction.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[teenager]]
+ * [[teenage]]
+ * [[-teen]]
+ * [[ten]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}