Where does “ôye” come from?

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

ôye (Lorrain): goose

Definitions

  1. goose

Ancestry of “ôye”, 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
Every word from Latin fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →