noun, feminine/vaɡ/plural: vagues
wave
“Un peu comme un bateau qui trouve son équilibre entre les vagues et le chaos” — A little like a boat that finds its equilibrium between waves and chaos
Related: creux de la vague, faire des vagues, nouvelle vague, vague de chaleur, vague de froid, vaguelette, vaguette
Inherited from Middle French vague, from Old French vague (“movement on the surface of a liquid, ripple”), from Old Norse vágr (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave, storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with Swedish våg (“wave”), Middle Dutch waeghe, wage (“wave”), Old High German wāge (“wave”), Old English wǣg (“wave, billow, motion, flood”). More at waw, wave.