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
Definitions
- to devour
Ancestry of “manjegar”, step by step
manjegar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Ido manjar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 |
via Proto-Turkic eg-
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Turkic | eg- | to bend |