Where does “gooseberry pudding” come from?
gooseberry pudding (English) comes from English pudding, from Middle English poding, from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
gooseberry pudding (English): A pudding made with gooseberries; A woman; A wife
Definitions
- A pudding made with gooseberries; A woman; A wife
Ancestry of “gooseberry pudding”, step by step
gooseberry pudding traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pudding
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pudding | Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared... |
| 2 | Middle English | poding | kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach |
| 3 | Old French | boudin | blood sausage, black pudding |
| 4 | Latin | botellus | a small sausage |
| 5 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English woman
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | woman | An adult female human; All female humans... |
| 2 | Middle English | womman | An female adult person; a woman; The female sex... |
| 3 | Old English | wīfmann | woman; female servant; woman |
| 4 | Old English | mann | person; man meaning mankind; man meaning adult... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | mann | person, human |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | *mann- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | men- | to think, mind; spiritual activity; to stay,... |