Where does “mange” come from?
Mange comes from Middle English manjewe, from Old French manjue, from Old French mangier meaning "to eat," from Latin manduco meaning "to chew," from Latin manus meaning "hand," and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European men-.
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Ancestry of “mange”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | manjewe | — |
| 2 | Old French | manjue | — |
| 3 | Old French | mangier | Alternative form of mengier; to eat |
| 4 | Latin | manducāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | manducō | to chew, gnaw on, masticate |
| 6 | Latin | mandūcus | glutton |
| 7 | Latin | -ucus | used to form the names of certain plants |
| 8 | Azerbaijani | uçmaq | to fly |
| 9 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اوچمق | to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface |
| 10 | Proto-Turkic | uč- | to fly |