Where does “lazou” come from?

lazou (Mauritian Creole) comes from French joue, from Old French joe, from Vulgar Latin *ga(v)ota.

lazou (Mauritian Creole): cheek

Definitions

  1. cheek

Ancestry of “lazou”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchjouecheek; inflection of jouer: ## first/third-person...
2Old Frenchjoecheek
3Vulgar Latin*ga(v)ota—
Every word from Vulgar Latin *ga(v)ota →Every word from Old French joe →Every word from French joue →