Fenning

name

Etymology

Topographic surname for someone who lived by a fen or marsh, from fen + -ing.

  1. derived from *pen-✻ — “bog, mire”
  2. inherited from *fanją✻
  3. inherited from *fani✻
  4. inherited from fenn — “fen; marsh; mud; dirt”
  5. inherited from fen
  6. suffixed as fenning — “fen + ing”

Definitions

  1. A surname.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA