Where does “mmangià” come from?

mmangià (Neapolitan) 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.

mmangià (Neapolitan): food

Definitions

  1. food

Ancestry of “mmangià”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmangerto eat; food, foodstuff
2Middle Frenchmangerto eat; food
3Old Frenchmengierto eat; food; nourishment
4Latinmanducāre
5Latinmanducōto chew, gnaw on, masticate
6Latinmandūcusglutton
7Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
8Azerbaijaniuçmaqto fly
9Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمقto fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface
10Proto-Turkicuč-to fly
Every word from Proto-Turkic uč-Every word from Latin -ucusEvery word from Latin mandūcus