Where does “volpoca” come from?
volpoca (Italian) comes from Italian oca, from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish okka, from Arabic أُوقِيَّة, from Classical Syriac ܐܘܢܩܝܐ, from Ancient Greek οὐγγία, from Latin uncia, from Old French lonce — to turn.
volpoca (Italian): shelduck, properly the common shelduck
Definitions
- shelduck, properly the common shelduck
Ancestry of “volpoca”, step by step
volpoca traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian oca
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | oca | goose; gander; goose, silly goose, airhead |
| 2 | French | oque | An oka: any of various units of mass formerly... |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | okka | — |
| 4 | Arabic | أُوقِيَّة | وِقِيَّة |
| 5 | Classical Syriac | ܐܘܢܩܝܐ | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | οὐγγία | — |
| 7 | Latin | uncia | The twelfth part of something; twelfth; The... |
| 8 | Old French | lonce | lynx |
| 9 | Italian | lonza | loin of pork; a term used in the Middle Ages to... |
| 10 | Vulgar Latin | luncea | — |
| 11 | Latin | lynx | A lynx |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | λύγξ | lynx; hiccup |
| 13 | Latin | canadensis | Canadian |
| 14 | Latin | -ensis | Of or from |
| 15 | Latin | arvum | field; farm land |
| 16 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 17 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 18 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |