Where does “mangiamoccoli” come from?

mangiamoccoli (Italian) comes from Italian mangiare, from Old French mangier, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō, from Latin mandūcus, from Latin -ucus, from Azerbaijani uçmaq, from Old Anatolian Turkish اوچمق — to fly.

mangiamoccoli (Italian): bigot

Definitions

  1. bigot

Ancestry of “mangiamoccoli”, step by step

mangiamoccoli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian mangiare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmangiareto eat; to tuck in, to start to eat; to live
2Old FrenchmangierAlternative form of mengier; to eat
3Latinmanducāre
4Latinmanducōto chew, gnaw on, masticate
5Latinmandūcusglutton
6Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
7Azerbaijaniuçmaqto fly
8Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمقto fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface
9Proto-Turkicuč-to fly

via Italian moccolo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmoccolocandle-end; top part of a wick; snot
2Latinmucusmucus
3Proto-Italicmoukos
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-k-slimy, slippery; slip, slime
Every word from Proto-Turkic uč-Every word from Latin -ucusEvery word from Latin mandūcus