Etymology

Fenton

F4E1N1T1O1N1

Today it means: A hamlet in Pidley cum Fenton parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL3279). Full definition →

Middle English Fenton ← Old English fenn
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromfenn“fen, marsh”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromFenton
  3. English todayFenton

From Middle English Fenton, from Old English fenn (“fen, marsh”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishfenn all →

VancefenFenwickFenby

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.