Fen


[fen] /fɛn/

noun
1.
low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
2.
the Fens, a marshy region W and S of The Wash, in E England.
[fen] /fɛn/
noun, plural fen.
1.
an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the People’s Republic of China, the hundredth part of a yuan or the tenth part of a jiao.
/fɛn/
noun
1.
low-lying flat land that is marshy or artificially drained
/fɛn/
noun (pl) fen
1.
a monetary unit of the People’s Republic of China, worth one hundredth of a yuan
n.

Old English fenn “mud, mire, dirt; fen, marsh, moor,” from Proto-Germanic *fanjam- (cf. Old Saxon feni, Old Frisian fenne, Middle Dutch venne, Dutch veen, Old High German fenna, German Fenn “marsh,” Old Norse fen, Gothic fani “mud”), from PIE *pen- “swamp” (cf. Gaulish anam “water,” Sanskrit pankah “bog, marsh, mud,” Old Prussian pannean “swampland”). Italian and Spanish fango, Old French fanc, French fange “mud” are loan-words from Germanic. The native Latin word was limus or lutum.

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