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Etymology

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Probably borrowed from Gaulish *wind-ēsyā, from Proto-Celtic *windos (white) + a nominal suffix -ēsyā.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vandoise f (plural vandoises)

  1. (zoology) dace, chub

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 423

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