Where does “meatza” come from?

meatza (English) comes from English meat, from Middle English mete, from Middle English bake mete, from Middle English baken, from Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g- — to bake, to roast, to fry.

meatza (English): A pizza-like dish made with a base of ground beef

Definitions

  1. A pizza-like dish made with a base of ground beef

Ancestry of “meatza”, step by step

meatza traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English meat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmeatThe flesh of an animal used as food; A type of...
2Middle EnglishmeteFood, nourishment or comestibles; that which is...
3Middle Englishbake meteAny kind of cooked food which has a pastry...
4Middle EnglishbakenTo bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of...
5Old Englishbacanto bake
6Proto-West Germanicbakanto bake
7Proto-Germanicbakanąto bake
8Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeh₃g-to bake, to roast, to fry

via English pizza

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpizzaA baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread...
2Italianpizzapizza; reel; something very monotonous and...
3Neapolitanpizzapizza
4Byzantine Greekπίταcake, pie; pie; Alternative form of πίττα , Attic...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g-