Where does “vas” come from?

vas (Mauritian Creole) comes from French vache, from Old French vache, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European wokeh₂-.

vas (Mauritian Creole): cow

Definitions

  1. cow

Ancestry of “vas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchvachecow; harsh; nasty
2Old Frenchvachecow
3Latinvaccacow
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwokeh₂-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wokeh₂- →Every word from Latin vacca →Every word from Old French vache →