Etymograph

English

Fawnlock

Blend of fawn + Sherlock.

A blend of fawn + Sherlock

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- ‘to suckle, nurse’

Latin fētus ‘offspring, young’

Vulgar Latin *fētōnem ‘young animal’

Old French faon

Middle English fawne

English fawn

Old English scir-locc ‘bright-lock’

English Sherlock

Today it means

noun A subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction and fanart portraying Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic deer-like creature.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Fawnlock