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Where does “eatery” come from?

Eatery comes from English eat, from Middle English eten, from Old English eoten, from Latin -arius, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ed- meaning to eat or consume.

eatery (English): A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat...

Definitions

  1. A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat...

Ancestry of “eatery”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-eryAdded to nouns to form other nouns meaning the...
2French-eriedenoting a shop selling a certain product;...
3Old French-erieused to form feminine nouns
4Old French-ieindicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one
5Latin-iaUsed to form a feminine abstract noun, usually...
6Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
7Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
8Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
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