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Where does “manĝigi” come from?

manĝigi (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.

manĝigi (Esperanto): to feed

Definitions

  1. to feed

Ancestry of “manĝigi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantomanĝito eat
2Frenchmangerto eat; food, foodstuff
3Middle Frenchmangerto eat; food
4Old Frenchmengierto eat; food; nourishment
5Latinmanducāre—
6Latinmanducō—
7Latinmandūcus—
8Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
9Azerbaijaniuçmaq—
10Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمق—
11Proto-Turkicuč-to fly
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