Where does “pwason” come from?
pwason (Mauritian Creole) comes from French Poisson, from Middle French poisson, from Old French poisson, from Old French peis, from Vulgar Latin pesum, from Latin pēnsum, from Latin pendō, from Proto-Italic pendō — to stretch.
pwason (Mauritian Creole): fish
Ancestry of “pwason”, step by step