Where does “breadfruit” come from?
Breadfruit comes from English braid and English fruit, whose fruit component derives from Old French fruit, Latin fructus, and Proto-Indo-European bʰer-.
breadfruit (English): An evergreen tree, "Artocarpus altilis", native...
Definitions
- An evergreen tree, "Artocarpus altilis", native...
Ancestry of “breadfruit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | bread | A foodstuff made by baking dough made from... |
| 2 | Middle English | bred | bread, pastry; food, nourishment |
| 3 | Old English | bred | surface; plank, board; table, tablet |
| 4 | Old English | -en | mæġþ + API → mæġden; cocc + API → cycen, cicen;... |
| 5 | Old Norse | -inn | Used to create adjectives from nouns, meaning... |
| 6 | Proto-Norse | -īna- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -īnaz | -en |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHnos | Creates adjectives of materials |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -no- | adjectival suffix |
Words derived from “breadfruit”