From Dutch 'wagen,' PIE *wogh-no- (vehicle) — kin to 'vehicle,' 'way,' and 'via,' all from *wegh- (to transport).
A four-wheeled vehicle used for transporting heavy loads, typically drawn by horses or oxen.
From Dutch 'wagen' (wagon, cart), from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (wagon), from PIE *woǵʰ-no- (vehicle), from *weǵʰ- (to transport, to move). The same PIE root produced Latin 'vehiculum' (vehicle), 'via' (road, way), and Sanskrit 'váhana' (vehicle). English inherited the native form as 'wain' (Old English 'wægn') but later
English has the same word twice: 'wain' is the native Old English descendant of Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, while 'wagon' was re-borrowed from Dutch in the sixteenth century. 'Charles's Wain' is the old English name for the Big Dipper constellation — a celestial wagon. The German car brand 'Volkswagen' literally means