Our village Teneevo is located in a beauty spot. Beside the river Hirlep proceeds, along it wide meadows, equal fields are pulled and only small sites of once extensive woods were saved. In the remote past, in dense woods, inhabitants of village for the different reasons moved. Also the small group of settlements under general name Teneevo was formed. These are villages Êàðìàëû, Задние Õèðëåïû and Передние Õèðëåïû, Ýðåíàðû, Ñìîðîäèíî. The origin of names of the rivers, villages always caused special interest. Not casually the whole science - toponymics is engaged in their studying. In opinion of known regional specialist L.A.Efimov, the name of our village occurs from an ancient man's name of Shadows, and the mari origin has villages Erenary: "Ýð" - on - mary "lake", "ýíãåð" - "water". At 13-15 centuries Chuvashia was under a yoke of Tatars. At this time also there was a name of village Karmaly this word Tatar - "êàðà" (black) + "ìàë" (kindly, riches). Names of villages Back and Forward Hirlepies have taken place from the same river proceeding by a number. The river of Hirlepies has extent of 30 km. Also runs into Tsivil.