English

fanmaking

From fan + making.

A compound of fan + making

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- ‘to blow’

Latin vannus ‘fan for winnowing grain’

Old English fann ‘a winnowing fan’

Middle English fan

English fan

Old English macung

Middle English making

Today it means

noun The manufacture of fans.

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

Etymograph / fanmaking