Meaning

noun a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon

noun an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs

noun canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey

originFrom Middle English fangen, fongen, from Old English fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”). Cognate with North Frisian fo, fu, füünj (“to get, obtain,…

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