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Where does “poding” come from?

poding (Middle English) comes from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

poding (Middle English): kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach

Definitions

  1. kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach

Ancestry of “poding”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchboudinblood sausage, black pudding
2Latinbotellusa small sausage
3Latin-lusAlternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix
4Proto-Italic-elos—
5Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “poding”

  • pudding
  • pud
  • puddingstone
  • Europudding
  • puddingy
  • puddinglike
  • puddingish
  • puddingless
  • pudwhacker
  • gooseberry pudding
  • budín
  • pudin
  • pudín
  • пудинг
  • pudding
  • Vanillepudding
  • Pudding
  • Wackelpudding
  • pudim
  • 布丁
  • 布甸
  • pudingo
  • プディング
  • プリン
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