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