Etymograph

English

fanspeak

From fan + -speak, modeled after Newspeak.

Formed from fan + -speak

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

Latin vannus ‘fan for winnowing grain’

Old English fann ‘a winnowing fan’

Middle English fan

English fan

Today it means

noun The jargon used by science fiction fans.

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

Etymograph / fanspeak