Where does “breastfeeding” come from?
I notice there's a problem with the chain provided: it contains two separate etymology lines that don't connect to each other (breast and pandemic are unrelated), and "breastfeeding" as a headword doesn't match the chain given.
Could you clarify:
1. Is the headword "breast" or "breastfeeding"?
2. Should the chain only include the breast line (English breast → Old Norse brestr → Proto-Indo-European bʰr̥stís/bʰrews-)?
3. Are the pandemic/Greek πάνδημος elements included by mistake?
Once confirmed, I can write an accurate one-sentence etymology.
breastfeeding (English): The activity of feeding a baby or young child...
Definitions
- The activity of feeding a baby or young child...
Ancestry of “breastfeeding”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | feeding | present participle of feed; An instance of giving... |
| 2 | English | feed | To give food to eat; To eat; To give to as... |
| 3 | Galician | feden | third-person plural present indicative of feder |
| 4 | Old English | fēdan | to feed |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *fōdijan | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | fōdijaną | to feed; to give birth |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₂- | to protect; to shepherd |
Words derived from “breastfeeding”