vaag
Dutch (Brabantic)
/vaːx/
adj
Definitions
- vague, hazy
- (informal) odd, weird
Etymology
Borrowed from French vague (wave) derived from Middle French vague derived from Latin vagus (wandering, strolling, flighty, vague, rambling, inconstant, uncertain, roaming, giddy, errant).
Origin
Latin
vagus
Gloss
wandering, strolling, flighty, vague, rambling, inconstant, uncertain, roaming, giddy, errant
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- vague English
- vagus English
- Venerivagus Latin
- arenivagus Latin
- circumvagus Latin
- fluctivagus Latin
- harenivagus Latin
- ignivagus Latin
- ludivagus Latin
- lustrivagus Latin
- montivagus Latin
- multivagus Latin
- mundivagus Latin
- nemorivagus Latin
- noctivagus Latin
- nubivagus Latin
- paludivagus Latin
- pervagus Latin
- pontivagus Latin
- remivagus Latin
- solivagus Latin
- undivagus Latin
- vagor Latin
- vagus Latin
- vulgivagus Latin
- gaio Italian
- vago Italian
- taal Dutch, Flemish
- vaagtaal Dutch, Flemish
- vague French
- vaguement French
- vag Norwegian Bokmål
- noctívago Portuguese
- vago Portuguese
- vag Swedish
- vag Norwegian Nynorsk
- vag Danish
- gai Old French
- vague Old French
- vague Catalan, Valencian
- vag Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vague Middle French
- *wagos Proto-Italic
- *gāhi Frankish
- *wāhi Frankish
- gai Old Occitan