Where does “vaquero” come from?

vaquero (Spanish) comes from Spanish vaca, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European wokeh₂-.

vaquero (Spanish): cowboy; jeans; A kind of bird

Definitions

  1. cowboy; jeans; A kind of bird

Ancestry of “vaquero”, step by step

vaquero traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish vaca

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishvacacow; beef; leather
2Latinvaccacow
3Proto-Indo-Europeanwokeh₂-—

via Latin vaccārius

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvaccāriusof or pertaining to a cow
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

via Vulgar Latin vaccarius

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latinvaccariuscowherder, rancher

Words derived from “vaquero”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European wokeh₂- →Every word from Latin vacca →Every word from Spanish vaca →