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

  1. fashionable

Ancestry of “voguey”, step by step

voguey traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Vogue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishVogueA fashion and lifestyle magazine
2Middle Frenchvoguewave, course of success
3Old Frenchvoguea rowing
4Old Frenchvoguerto row, sway, set sail
5ItalianvogareTo row
6Old Saxonwagonto sway
7Proto-West Germanic*wagōn
8Proto-Germanicwagōnąto move, stir, sway
9Proto-Germanicweganąto move, to carry; to weigh
10Proto-Indo-Europeanweǵʰ-to bring; to transport

via English Y

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
2EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
3Japanese百合lily
4Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
5Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
6Japanesea dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
7Old Japanesea dream
8Japanesean order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
9Middle Chinese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European weǵʰ-Every word from Proto-Germanic weganąEvery word from Proto-Germanic wagōną