Where does “manĝejo” come from?
manĝejo (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.
manĝejo (Esperanto): dining room; eatery
Definitions
- dining room; eatery
Ancestry of “manĝejo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | manĝi | to eat |
| 2 | French | manger | to eat; food, foodstuff |
| 3 | Middle French | manger | to eat; food |
| 4 | Old French | mengier | to eat; food; nourishment |
| 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 |