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Where does “mangetout” come from?

mangetout (English) comes from French mangetout, from French manger, from Middle French manger, from Old French mengier, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō, from Latin mandūcus, from Latin -ucus — to fly.

mangetout (English): A vegetable pea eaten when immature

Definitions

  1. A vegetable pea eaten when immature

Ancestry of “mangetout”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmangetout—
2Frenchmangerto eat; food, foodstuff
3Middle Frenchmangerto eat; food
4Old Frenchmengierto eat; food; nourishment
5Latinmanducāre—
6Latinmanducō—
7Latinmandūcus—
8Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
9Azerbaijaniuçmaq—
10Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمق—
11Proto-Turkicuč-to fly
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