Where does “avangardo” come from?

avangardo (Esperanto) comes from French avant-garde, from Old French avantgarde.

avangardo (Esperanto): vanguard

Definitions

  1. vanguard

Ancestry of “avangardo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchavant-gardevanguard; avant-garde, firing line
2Old Frenchavantgarde—
Every word from Old French avantgarde →Every word from French avant-garde →