Where does “avion” come from?

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

avion (Norman): airplane

Definitions

  1. airplane

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 fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →