Where does “chuchamel” come from?

chuchamel (Galician) comes from Galician mel, from Old Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem, from Latin mel, from Proto-Indo-European mélit — honey.

chuchamel (Galician): honeysuckle (Lonicera)

Definitions

  1. honeysuckle (Lonicera)

Ancestry of “chuchamel”, step by step

chuchamel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Galician mel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianmelhoney
2Old Portuguesemelhoney
3Vulgar Latin*melem—
4Latinmelhoney; sweetness, pleasantness; darling, sweet,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmélithoney

via Galician chuchar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianchucharto suck, to sip; to kiss; to lap, to sip, to suck
2Vulgar Latinsuctiare—
3Latinsūgōto suck
4Proto-Indo-Europeansug-—
5Proto-Indo-Europeansew-to press out, extract; juice; liquid, rain; to...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mélit →Every word from Latin mel →Every word from Vulgar Latin *melem →