Where does “zoi” come from?

zoi (Réunion Creole French) comes from French oie, from Old French oie, from Vulgar Latin auca, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

zoi (Réunion Creole French): goose

Definitions

  1. goose

Ancestry of “zoi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchoiegoose; first-person singular present subjunctive...
2Old Frenchoiegoose
3Vulgar Latinaucagoose
4Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
5EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
6Latinfaunaanimals
Every word from Latin fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →