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Probably because of its origin in French (vague, 16th century) and Latin (vagus). In Latin "us" is a common suffix.

Anglo-Saxon (old english) and Norse (viking) words do not have such characteristics, but many Norman French borrow words (after 1066) have them, due to the Latin origin of French.

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