Where does “manjegar” come from?
manjegar (Ido) comes from Ido manjar, 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.
manjegar (Ido): to devour
Ancestry of “manjegar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ido | manjar | to eat; to eat away; consume |
| 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 | — |
| 8 | Latin | mandūcus | — |
| 9 | Latin | -ucus | used to form the names of certain plants |
| 10 | Azerbaijani | uçmaq | — |
| 11 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اوچمق | — |
| 12 | Proto-Turkic | uč- | to fly |