Where does “fethans” come from?

fethans (Cornish) comes from Old Saxon fetha.

fethans (Cornish): conquest, defeat, exhaustion

Definitions

  1. conquest, defeat, exhaustion

Ancestry of “fethans”, step by step

fethans traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Saxon fetha

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxonfetha

via Cornish ans

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishans
Every word from Old Saxon fetha
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