Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. · Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). See also West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen; also Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionfenenm
- Inherited-form mentionfennang · fen; marsh; mud; dirt
- Inherited-form mention*fanigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*fanjągem-pro
- Derivation mention*pen-ine-pro · bog, mire
- Cognate mentionfeanfy
- Cognate mentionveennl
- Cognate mentionFennde
- Cognate mentionfenno
- Cognate mentionenmga · water
- Cognate mentionpanneanprg · peat-bog
- Cognate mentionपङ्कsa · marsh, mud, mire, slough
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