Where does “manĝi” come from?

manĝi (Esperanto) comes from French manger, from Middle French manger, from Old French mengier, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō, from Latin mandūcus, from Latin -ucus, from Azerbaijani uçmaq — to fly.

manĝi (Esperanto): to eat

Definitions

to eat

Ancestry of “manĝi”, step by step

manĝi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French manger

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	manger	to eat; food, foodstuff
2	Middle French	manger	to eat; food
3	Old French	mengier	to eat; food; nourishment
4	Latin	manducāre	—
5	Latin	manducō	to chew, gnaw on, masticate
6	Latin	mandūcus	glutton
7	Latin	-ucus	used to form the names of certain plants
8	Azerbaijani	uçmaq	to fly
9	Old Anatolian Turkish	اوچمق	to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface
10	Proto-Turkic	uč-	to fly

via Italian mangiare

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Italian	mangiare	to eat; to tuck in, to start to eat; to live

Words derived from “manĝi”

Every word from Proto-Turkic uč- →Every word from Latin -ucus →Every word from Latin mandūcus →