Etymology

Fownes

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

Old French faon
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromfaon“fawn”
  2. English todayFownes

From Old French faon (“fawn”), probably a nickname for a lively or frisky person.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.