Where does “ĉefmanĝo” come from?
ĉefmanĝo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto manĝo, from Esperanto manĝi, from French manger, from Middle French manger, from Old French mengier, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō, from Latin mandūcus — to fly.
ĉefmanĝo (Esperanto): entrée, main course
Definitions
- entrée, main course
Ancestry of “ĉefmanĝo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | manĝo | meal |
| 2 | Esperanto | manĝi | to eat |
| 3 | French | manger | to eat; food, foodstuff |
| 4 | Middle French | manger | to eat; food |
| 5 | Old French | mengier | to eat; food; nourishment |
| 6 | Latin | manducāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | manducō | to chew, gnaw on, masticate |
| 8 | Latin | mandūcus | glutton |
| 9 | Latin | -ucus | used to form the names of certain plants |
| 10 | Azerbaijani | uçmaq | to fly |
| 11 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اوچمق | to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface |
| 12 | Proto-Turkic | uč- | to fly |