Where does “ምግብ ቤት” come from?

ምግብ ቤት (Amharic) comes from Amharic ቤት, from Proto-Semitic bayt- — house.

ምግብ ቤት (Amharic): restaurant

Definitions

  1. restaurant

Ancestry of “ምግብ ቤት”, step by step

ምግብ ቤት traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Amharic ቤት

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Amharicቤትhouse
2Proto-Semiticbayt-house

via Amharic ምግብ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Amharicምግብfood
Every word from Proto-Semitic bayt-Every word from Amharic ቤት
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