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FENN
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English
English : topographic name for a fen dweller, from a derivative of Old English fenn (see Fenn).
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German
German : ethnic name for a Finn (see Finn 3) or a topographic name, from an agent derivative of Old High German fenni, Middle Low German and Old Frisian fenne ‘bog’ (see Fenn).English : possibly a variant of Fenner.
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English
English : unexplained.
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English
English : habitational name (reflecting the pronunciation of the place name) for someone from Finchale in Durham, named from Old English finc ‘finch’ + halh ‘nook or corner of land’.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name or topographic name from Middle English fenkel ‘fennel’. Compare Fennell.Respelling of German Finkel.
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Indian
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a low-lying marshy area (see Fenn).South German : occupational name for an ensign or standard bearer, from Middle High German vener, an agent derivative of Middle High German vane ‘flag’. See also Fenrich.
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Tamil
Guardian of peace
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English
English : variant of Fenn.Reduced form of Irish McFann.The first recorded bearer of this name in North America is John Fann, who was born in Richmond Co., VA, in 1688.
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Indian
Guardian of peace
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’Irish : English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized form of various like-sounding names, for example Finkelstein (see Funke).
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Tamil
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a low-lying marshy area, from Middle English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘bog’.South German : topographic name from Old High German fenni, Middle Low German and Old Frisian fenne ‘bog’. Compare Fehn.
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English
English : variant of Fennell.
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English (West Country)
English (West Country) : topographic name for someone who lived in a low-lying marshy area, from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘bog’, reflecting the voicing of f that was characteristic of southwestern dialects of Middle English.
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English
English : variant of Fenning.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of fennel (Old English finugle, fenol, from Late Latin fenuculum). Fennel was widely used in the Middle Ages as a herb for seasoning. The surname may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived near a place where the herb grew or was grown.English : Reaney also identifies this as a derivative of Fitz Neal ‘son of Neal’, citing as an example Fennells Wood, a place name recorded in 1391 as Fenelgrove and named for a Robert FitzNeel (1283).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnghail ‘descendant of Fionnghal’, a personal name composed of the elements fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ + gal ‘valor’.
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English and Irish
English and Irish : variant spelling of Fennell.
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English
English : variant spelling of Fenimore.
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English
English : variant of Fennell 1, found predominantly in East Sussex.
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English
English : origin uncertain; most probably a variant of Finney.
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Arthurian Legend American
Mother of Lancelot.
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English French
Blend of Dion and Andre.
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Shining Brightly
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Face like moon
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French
God is gracious.
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Italian, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Marathi, Netherlands, Portuguese, Swedish, Telugu
Bringer of Light; Light; The Light of India
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Hindu
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English American Anglo Saxon French
Prosperous protector.
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Arabic, Australian, British, German, Muslim, Turkish
Perfection; Beauty
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Tamil
Shivas son Murugan, Well starred
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A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel.
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A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway.
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Abounding in fens; fenny.
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The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.
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The hog's fennel. See under Fennel.
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The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.
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Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.
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An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.
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Moory; fenny; boggy.
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The fennec.
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Marshy; fenny.
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Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.
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A perennial plant of the genus Faeniculum (F. vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.
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A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferae) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples.
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A composite plant (Anthemis Cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States.
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Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
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A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor.
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Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.