Where does “Wauntpapia” come from?

Wauntpapia (Plautdietsch) comes from Latin Papia, from Portuguese papear, from Portuguese papo, from Portuguese papar, from Old Portuguese papar, from Latin pappo — I eat, eat pap.

Wauntpapia (Plautdietsch): wallpaper

Definitions

  1. wallpaper

Ancestry of “Wauntpapia”, step by step

Wauntpapia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin Papia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinPapia—
2Portuguesepapearto chat, to chatter, to babble
3Portuguesepapocrop; stomach; goitre
4Portuguesepaparto eat
5Old Portuguesepapar—
6LatinpappoI eat, eat pap

via Plautdietsch Waunt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschWauntwall
2Middle Low Germanwant—
3Old Saxonwandmole, vole
4Proto-West Germanic*wandu—
5Proto-Germanicwanduzmole; vole; rod, switch, stick
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwendʰ-to wind, to turn
Every word from Latin pappo →Every word from Old Portuguese papar →Every word from Portuguese papar →