The story
- German · derived fromfort“forth”
- English todayforty weepy weepy
From a message whose plaintext began fortyweepyyweepy: German fort (“forth”), short for Fortsetzung (“continuation”) + weep, typewriter code for 23:30, the time of the previous message. Enigma machines had no number keys, so the letter y marked the letters to be interpreted as numbers.
Words from the same roots
Germanfort all →
fort-da
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.