Where does “manje maten” come from?

manje maten (Haitian Creole) comes from Haitian Creole manje, 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.

manje maten (Haitian Creole): breakfast

Definitions

  1. breakfast

Ancestry of “manje maten”, step by step

manje maten traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Haitian Creole manje

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Haitian Creolemanjefood; eat
2Frenchmangerto eat; food, foodstuff
3Middle Frenchmangerto eat; food
4Old Frenchmengierto eat; food; nourishment
5Latinmanducāre
6Latinmanducōto chew, gnaw on, masticate
7Latinmandūcusglutton
8Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
9Azerbaijaniuçmaqto fly
10Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمقto fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface
11Proto-Turkicuč-to fly

via Haitian Creole maten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Haitian Creolematenmorning
2Frenchmâtinguard dog, watchdog, hound; mastiff; sly old dog,...
3Old Frenchmastinguard dog
4Latinmansuetīnus
5Latinmānsuētustamed, tame
6Latinmansuēscōto tame, render mild, gentle, or peaceable
7Latinsuēscōto become used or accustomed to
8Proto-Indo-Europeanswe-dʰh₁-sk-
9Proto-Indo-Europeandʰeh₁-to do, put, place
Every word from Proto-Turkic uč-Every word from Latin -ucusEvery word from Latin mandūcus