Where does “ваго́н” come from?
ваго́н (Russian) 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.
Ancestry of “ваго́н”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
Words derived from “ваго́н”