Where does “Fanny” come from?

Fanny comes from the English diminutive of Frances, from Old French Franceise and Franceis, ultimately from Latin Francia and the suffix -iscus, with roots in Proto-Indo-European prAng-.

Fanny (English): itself also becoming a given name

Definitions

  1. itself also becoming a given name

Ancestry of “Fanny”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishFranceson the border with Victoria
2Old FrenchFranceise
3Late LatinFranciscus
4Latinfrancusfranc; a Frenchman; Frank, of or pertaining to...
5Frankishfrank
6Proto-Germanicfrankôspear, javelin; a Frank
7Proto-Indo-EuropeanprAng-pole, stalk

Words derived from “Fanny

Every word from Proto-Indo-European prAng-