Where does “vaigínéad” come from?
vaigínéad (Irish) comes from Irish vaigín, from English wagon, from Dutch wagen, from Dutch lijkwagen, from Dutch lijk, from Middle Dutch lijc, from Old Dutch līk, from Proto-West Germanic līk — to bind, tie.
vaigínéad (Irish): wagonette
Ancestry of “vaigínéad”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Irish | vaigín | wagon, wain; schooner |
| 2 | English | wagon | A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads; A... |
| 3 | Dutch | wagen | A wagon, carriage; A cart; An automobile, car,... |
| 4 | Dutch | lijkwagen | A hearse, a funerary vehicle |
| 5 | Dutch | lijk | The dead but otherwise intact body of a human or... |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | lijc | — |
| 7 | Old Dutch | līk | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | līk | body |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | līką | body; corpse, dead body; leech-line, bolt-rope |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leyǵ- | to bind, tie |