Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*pen-
3 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *pen-, most common first.
- fenA type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
- PannoniaA geographic region and former province of the Roman Empire in central-eastern Europe, existing as a single province from c. 9 AD to 107 AD and as multiple related provinces until 433 AD; located in modern western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, northwestern Serbia, northern Slovenia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- fennyCharacteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.