Where does “mangerlike” come from?
mangerlike (English) comes from English manger, from Middle English manger, from Old French mangeoire, from Old French mangier, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō, from Latin mandūcus, from Latin -ucus — to fly.
mangerlike (English): Resembling or characteristic of a manger
Definitions
- Resembling or characteristic of a manger
Ancestry of “mangerlike”, step by step
mangerlike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English manger
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | manger | A trough for animals to eat from |
| 2 | Middle English | manger | manger |
| 3 | Old French | mangeoire | — |
| 4 | Old French | mangier | Alternative form of mengier; to eat |
| 5 | Latin | manducāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | manducō | to chew, gnaw on, masticate |
| 7 | Latin | mandūcus | glutton |
| 8 | Latin | -ucus | used to form the names of certain plants |
| 9 | Azerbaijani | uçmaq | to fly |
| 10 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اوچمق | to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface |
| 11 | Proto-Turkic | uč- | to fly |
via English like
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | like | To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of;... |
| 2 | Dutch | luik | hatch; shutter; panel, as in a triptych |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | luke | — |
| 4 | Dutch | luiken | to close, to shut |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | luken | to close, to shut; to close, to become closed |
| 6 | Old Dutch | lūcan | to close, shut |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | lūkan | to close, to shut |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | lūkaną | to close, to shut; Alternative form of *leukaną |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | lewǵ- | to break, tear; to break, shatter |