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.