Where does “Aviatioun” come from?

Aviatioun (Luxembourgish) comes from French aviation, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

Aviatioun (Luxembourgish): aviation

Definitions

  1. aviation

Ancestry of “Aviatioun”, step by step

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