Where does “manĝeti” come from?

manĝeti (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.

manĝeti (Esperanto): to nibble

Definitions

  1. to nibble

Ancestry of “manĝeti”, step by step

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
Every word from Proto-Turkic uč-Every word from Latin -ucusEvery word from Latin mandūcus