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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA habitational surname from Old English. · A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage. · A town in Tuscaloosa County and Bibb County, Alabama. · A township in Vermilion County, Illinois.
From a Southern English dialectal form of Old English fenn (“marsh, bog”).
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- Derivation mentionfennang
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