Where does “vagão” come from?
vagão (Portuguese) comes from French wagon, from English wagon, from Dutch wagen, from Dutch lijkwagen, from Dutch lijk, from Middle Dutch lijc, from Old Dutch līk, from Proto-West Germanic līk — to bind, tie.
vagão (Portuguese): wagon; Obsolete spelling of vagam
Definitions
- wagon; Obsolete spelling of vagam
Ancestry of “vagão”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | wagon | a railway carriage |
| 2 | English | wagon | A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads; A... |
| 3 | Dutch | wagen | A wagon, carriage; A cart; An automobile, car,... |
| 4 | Dutch | lijkwagen | A hearse, a funerary vehicle |
| 5 | Dutch | lijk | The dead but otherwise intact body of a human or... |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | lijc | — |
| 7 | Old Dutch | līk | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | līk | body |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | līką | body; corpse, dead body; leech-line, bolt-rope |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leyǵ- | to bind, tie |