Where does “sobremenjar” come from?
sobremenjar (Catalan) comes from Catalan menjar, from Vulgar Latin mandicare, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō, from Latin mandūcus, from Latin -ucus, from Azerbaijani uçmaq, from Old Anatolian Turkish اوچمق — to fly.
sobremenjar (Catalan): to overeat
Definitions
- to overeat
Ancestry of “sobremenjar”, step by step
sobremenjar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan menjar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | menjar | to eat; food |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | mandicare | — |
| 3 | Latin | manducāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | manducō | to chew, gnaw on, masticate |
| 5 | Latin | mandūcus | glutton |
| 6 | Latin | -ucus | used to form the names of certain plants |
| 7 | Azerbaijani | uçmaq | to fly |
| 8 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اوچمق | to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface |
| 9 | Proto-Turkic | uč- | to fly |
via Catalan sobre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | sobre | on, on top of; over, above; about |
| 2 | Latin | super | "accusative" above, on the top of, upon;... |
| 3 | Latin | eks-uper | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | upéri | alternative reconstruction of *upér |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |