Julius Solinus, writing between 300AD and 350AD, is the
first of the Roman writers, who mentions it by the name of Athanaton and
Thanaton. The Saxons afterwards called it Teneth, and Tenetlonde,
Change of language, and length of time, it has been softened it to Thanet, as it is called at present.
As you can see, here at Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate I have been reading some of our Thanet local history books.
On With the name Thanet. The following pictures are pages from the 1736 edition of John Lewis's The History and Antiquities as well Ecclesiastical as Civil of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. We do a cheap paper edition of this. Here is the link
The pictures of the pages should expand for reading with a bit of clicking and I hope you can see that trying to work out the origin of the name Thanet is a bit of a non starter.
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