Where does “vespermanĝi” come from?

vespermanĝi (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto vespermanĝo, 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.

vespermanĝi (Esperanto): to eat dinner supper, evening meal, to dine

Definitions

  1. to eat dinner supper, evening meal, to dine

Ancestry of “vespermanĝi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantovespermanĝodinner, supper, evening meal
2Esperantomanĝomeal
3Esperantomanĝito eat
4Frenchmangerto eat; food, foodstuff
5Middle Frenchmangerto eat; food
6Old Frenchmengierto eat; food; nourishment
7Latinmanducāre
8Latinmanducōto chew, gnaw on, masticate
9Latinmandūcusglutton
10Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
11Azerbaijaniuçmaqto fly
12Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمقto fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface
13Proto-Turkicuč-to fly
Every word from Proto-Turkic uč-Every word from Latin -ucusEvery word from Latin mandūcus