voie

la voie (FR N-F) way, the distance necessary to travel to arrive somewhere; such a way, as an organized route; one of the great roads of antiquity; animal tracks; tracks left by the wheels of a vehicle; the width of one pass of a scythe; anatomical passage; ensemble of actions leading to a certain end; means of proceeding; intermediary that allows something eventually to take place. First appears in French in the 11th century spelled veie, from Latin via. (Verlaine)