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Where does “manze” come from?

manze (Mauritian Creole) 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.

manze (Mauritian Creole): To eat; food, meal

Definitions

  1. To eat; food, meal

Ancestry of “manze”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmangerto eat; food, foodstuff
2Middle Frenchmangerto eat; food
3Old Frenchmengierto eat; food; nourishment
4Latinmanducāre—
5Latinmanducō—
6Latinmandūcus—
7Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
8Azerbaijaniuçmaq—
9Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمق—
10Proto-Turkicuč-to fly
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