fawn
English
/fɔːn/
noun
Definitions
- A young deer.
- A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
- (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English foun derived from Old French faon derived from Latin *fetonem, fētus (offspring, fruitful, nursing, bearing young, young) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (suckle, suck, nurse, suck milk), *dʰeh₁(y)- (suckle, suck, nurse, suck milk).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁(y)-
Gloss
suckle, suck, nurse, suck milk
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Fitz- English
- autofellatio English
- fawner English
- fawnest English
- fawneth English
- fawnish English
- fawnlike English
- fawnling English
- fawnskin English
- fawny English
- fecund English
- fecundation English
- fecundity English
- felicitous English
- fellator English
- fellatrix English
- fetus English
- outfawn English
- overfawn English
- skin English
- *fetonem Latin
- *fētō Latin
- *fētōnem Latin
- Fēlīx Latin
- effetus Latin
- faenus Latin
- fecundus Latin
- felicitas Latin
- fello Latin
- fellātio Latin
- femella Latin
- feto Latin
- fetus Latin
- foenum-graecum Latin
- fēlīcitās Latin
- fētus Latin
- fētōnem, *fētō Latin
- fīlia Latin
- feto Italian
- foetus Dutch, Flemish
- femme French
- fécond French
- fœtus French
- feto Spanish, Castilian
- Τηθύς Ancient Greek
- θεῖος Ancient Greek
- θῆλυς Ancient Greek
- τίτθη Ancient Greek
- τιθήνη Ancient Greek
- *dʰeh₁(y)- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁(y)-m̥n-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁(y)-no- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁-lw-i Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂, *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁ylios Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰéh₁(y)-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- feto Portuguese
- *dajjaną Proto-Germanic
- *dajjǭ Proto-Germanic
- *dil- Proto-Germanic
- *dilkaz Proto-Germanic
- di Swedish
- dibarn Swedish
- दधि Sanskrit
- धान्य Sanskrit
- foun Middle English
- dilkr Old Norse
- dilkær Old Norse
- die Danish
- *dojiti Proto-Slavic
- *dětę Proto-Slavic
- *děva Proto-Slavic
- faon Old French
- fetus Catalan, Valencian
- făt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- denu Welsh
- դայեակ Old Armenian
- faon Middle French
- *delu- Proto-Celtic
- *dī-āti-s Proto-Celtic
- *dʰa(H)inúš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- fètus Occitan
- fetu Asturian
- *dā(i)tjā Proto-Albanian
- *dē- bat-pro
- دا Bakhtiari