[jwkane]

don't apologize for using a great word. :)

[adolph]

Totally agreed, my comment was just to add meaning in case others also wondered , not a criticism. Gotta love trans-language words. My friends used to say “go hands” whenever it was time to vamanos.

[mbg721]

I mean, in much the same way, "lexicon" is French for "the xicon"...

[thaumasiotes]

But hands, manos, does not even appear in vámonos.

[throwamon]

I was about to say the same, but I just googled to be sure. Apparently "vamanos" is a common (mis)spelling?

[thaumasiotes]

I always thought it was vaminos.

Spanish speakers are unlikely to make that mistake, though, because the ending -monos is regular for first-person plural reflexive imperatives. https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/mirarse#Conjugaci%C3%B3n

(And -monos is etymologically very transparent - it's just the first person plural ending -mos, familiar to everybody, with the first person plural reflexive pronoun nos suffixed onto it and eliding the -s of -mos.)

[adolph]

It might be a Texas accent thing, like green toad (sappo verde) for happy birthday.