Where does “faun” come from?
Faun comes from Middle English fawn, from Latin Faunus, the name of a Roman woodland deity.
faun (English): A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and...
Definitions
- A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and...
Ancestry of “faun”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | fawn | fawn, satyr |
| 2 | Latin | Faunus | Faunus |
| 3 | New Latin | fauna | animals |
| 4 | English | avifauna | The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting... |
| 5 | Latin | avis | a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | awis | bird |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂éwis | bird |
Words derived from “faun”