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Wagon

2 stages from Dutch to English.

Today it means a four-wheeled vehicle used for carrying heavy loads
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wagen
Dutch · medieval
"a wheeled cart"
the Dutch word for a wheeled cart
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wagon
English · 1500s-1600s
"a four-wheeled vehicle for carrying goods"
adopted directly from Dutch, alongside the native English "wain"
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