Where does “voguey” come from?
voguey (English) comes from English Vogue, from Middle French vogue, from Old French vogue, from Old French voguer, from Italian vogare, from Old Saxon wagon, from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic wagōną — to bring; to transport.
voguey (English): fashionable
Definitions
- fashionable
Ancestry of “voguey”, step by step
voguey traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Vogue
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Vogue | A fashion and lifestyle magazine |
| 2 | Middle French | vogue | wave, course of success |
| 3 | Old French | vogue | a rowing |
| 4 | Old French | voguer | to row, sway, set sail |
| 5 | Italian | vogare | To row |
| 6 | Old Saxon | wagon | to sway |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *wagōn | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | wagōną | to move, stir, sway |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | weganą | to move, to carry; to weigh |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | weǵʰ- | to bring; to transport |
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |