Etymology

Fortnum

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Today it means: A surname from Old French. Full definition →

Old French fort
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromfort“strong”
  2. English todayFortnum

From Old French fort (“strong”) + anon (“young foal”), probably a nickname of some sort.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.