English

fanweed

From fan + weed.

A compound of fan + weed

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

Latin vannus ‘fan for winnowing grain’

Old English fann ‘a winnowing fan’

Middle English fan

English fan

Proto-West Germanic *weud

Old English wēod

Middle English weed

English weed

Today it means

noun The flowering plant Thlaspi arvense.

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