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It comes, ultimately, from the PIE root *weg- meaning "be strong, lively".

How it came to mean something that isn't normally known for being either strong or lively is through a chain of Latin words with subtly different meanings from vegere "active" through Medievel Latin vegetabilis "growing" and then to Old French vegetable "living, fit to live".

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