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noun, feminine

vandoise

/vɑ̃.dwaz/

noun, feminine/vɑ̃.dwaz/plural: vandoises

dace, chub

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