Where does “Avion” come from?

Avion (Luxembourgish) comes from French avion, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

Avion (Luxembourgish): aeroplane

Definitions

  1. aeroplane

Ancestry of “Avion”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchavionaeroplane
2Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
3EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
4Latinfaunaanimals
Every word from Latin faunaEvery word from Latin avisEvery word from English avifauna