English

fawnery

fawn + -ery

Formed from fawn + -ery

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

Today it means

noun Fawning; servility.

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