vandoise

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French vandoise, from Old French vendoise,[1] from Late Latin *vindēsia, *vindisia,[2] from Gaulish *wind-ēsyā, from Proto-Celtic *windos (“white”) + a nominal suffix -ēsyā.[3] Cognate with English vendace, Norman vendeise, and Walloon vindwesse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɑ̃.dwaz/

Noun

vandoise f (plural vandoises)

  1. (ichthyology) dace, chub

References

  1. ^ “vandoise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  2. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*vĭndĭsia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 471
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 423

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