Where does “mangiar” come from?
mangiar (Interlingua) comes from French manger, from Middle French manger, from Old French mengier, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō, from Latin mandūcus, from Latin -ucus, from Azerbaijani uçmaq — to fly.
mangiar (Interlingua): to eat
Definitions
- to eat
Ancestry of “mangiar”, step by step
mangiar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French manger
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | manger | to eat; food, foodstuff |
| 2 | Middle French | manger | to eat; food |
| 3 | Old French | mengier | to eat; food; nourishment |
| 4 | Latin | manducāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | manducō | to chew, gnaw on, masticate |
| 6 | Latin | mandūcus | glutton |
| 7 | Latin | -ucus | used to form the names of certain plants |
| 8 | Azerbaijani | uçmaq | to fly |
| 9 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اوچمق | to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface |
| 10 | Proto-Turkic | uč- | to fly |
via Italian mangiare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | mangiare | to eat; to tuck in, to start to eat; to live |