Etymology

veganism

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Today it means: A way of life which strictly avoids animal products and services involving the use of living animals. Full definition →

English vegan ← Middle English vegetable ← Old French vegetable
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*weg-o-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*weǵ-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*woǵéyeti
  4. Proto-Italic*wogeōder.?
  5. Latinvegeō
  6. Latinvegetus
  7. Latinvegetāre, vegetō
  8. Latinvegetābilis
  9. Old Frenchvegetable
  10. Middle Englishvegetable
  11. Englishvegetable
  12. Englishvegetarian
  13. Englishvegan
  14. English todayveganism

From vegan + -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.