Where does “manĝo” come from?
manĝo (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.
manĝo (Esperanto): meal
Definitions
- meal
Ancestry of “manĝo”, step by step
manĝo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto manĝi
| 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 |
via Malay mangga
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malay | mangga | mango; padlock |
| 2 | Tamil | மாங்காய் | unripe mango fruit; kidney; gizzard |
| 3 | Tamil | மா | animal, beast; horse; elephant |
| 4 | Old Tamil | 𑀫𑀸 | big |
| 5 | Sanskrit | महा | combining form of महत्; buffalo; great, large,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | maźʰā́ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | maȷ́ʰā́ | big, great |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | méǵh₂s | big, great |