Where does “abelmanĝulo” come from?

abelmanĝulo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto manĝi, 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.

abelmanĝulo (Esperanto): bee-eater

Definitions

  1. bee-eater

Ancestry of “abelmanĝulo”, step by step

abelmanĝulo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Esperanto manĝi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantomanĝito eat
2Frenchmangerto eat; food, foodstuff
3Middle Frenchmangerto eat; food
4Old Frenchmengierto eat; food; nourishment
5Latinmanducāre
6Latinmanducōto chew, gnaw on, masticate
7Latinmandūcusglutton
8Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
9Azerbaijaniuçmaqto fly
10Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمقto fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface
11Proto-Turkicuč-to fly

via Esperanto abelo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoabelobee
2Frenchabeillebee, honeybee; a writer whose style is considered...
3Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
4Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
5Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
6Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
7Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂
Every word from Proto-Turkic uč-Every word from Latin -ucusEvery word from Latin mandūcus