Where does “tagmanĝi” come from?
tagmanĝi (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto tagmanĝo, from Esperanto manĝo, from Esperanto manĝi, from French manger, from Middle French manger, from Old French mengier, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō — to fly.
tagmanĝi (Esperanto): to eat lunch
Definitions
- to eat lunch
Ancestry of “tagmanĝi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | tagmanĝo | lunch, midday meal |
| 2 | Esperanto | manĝo | meal |
| 3 | Esperanto | manĝi | to eat |
| 4 | French | manger | to eat; food, foodstuff |
| 5 | Middle French | manger | to eat; food |
| 6 | Old French | mengier | to eat; food; nourishment |
| 7 | Latin | manducāre | — |
| 8 | Latin | manducō | to chew, gnaw on, masticate |
| 9 | Latin | mandūcus | glutton |
| 10 | Latin | -ucus | used to form the names of certain plants |
| 11 | Azerbaijani | uçmaq | to fly |
| 12 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اوچمق | to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface |
| 13 | Proto-Turkic | uč- | to fly |