Where does “freegan” come from?
freegan (English) comes from English Vegan, from English vegetarian, from English vegetable, from Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin vegetabilis, from Latin vegeto, from Latin vegetus — lively, awake; strong.
freegan (English): A person who salvages and consumes food that has...
Definitions
- A person who salvages and consumes food that has...
Ancestry of “freegan”, step by step
freegan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Vegan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Vegan | Relating to Vega; Someone from Vega, which is... |
| 2 | English | vegetarian | A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in... |
| 3 | English | vegetable | Any plant; A plant raised for some edible part of... |
| 4 | Middle English | vegetable | — |
| 5 | Old French | vegetable | — |
| 6 | Latin | vegetabilis | animating, enlivening, vivifying; able to produce... |
| 7 | Latin | vegeto | I arouse, enliven, quicken, animate, invigorate;... |
| 8 | Latin | vegetus | enlivened, lively, animated, vigorous, active,... |
| 9 | Latin | vegeo | I move, excite, quicken, arouse; I am lively or... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | wegeō | to be active, lively |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | wegejō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | woǵ-éye- | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | weǵ- | lively, awake; strong |
via English Free
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Free | Unconstrained |
| 2 | English | faller | One who falls; A fruit that falls from the tree,... |
| 3 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 4 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 5 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 6 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |