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Where does “oie” come from?

oie (French) comes from Old French oie, from Vulgar Latin auca, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

oie (French): goose; first-person singular present subjunctive...

Definitions

  1. goose; first-person singular present subjunctive...

Ancestry of “oie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchoiegoose
2Vulgar Latinaucagoose
3Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
4EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
5Latinfaunaanimals

Words derived from “oie”

  • oison
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