Where does “demâncărică” come from?
demâncărică (Romanian) comes from Romanian demâncare, from Romanian mâncare, from Romanian mânca, from Vulgar Latin manucare, from Latin manducāre, from Latin manducō, from Latin mandūcus, from Latin -ucus — to fly.
Ancestry of “demâncărică”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | demâncare | food |
| 2 | Romanian | mâncare | food; eating |
| 3 | Romanian | mânca | to eat; to be eaten; to eat away at, corrode;... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | manucare | — |
| 5 | Latin | manducāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | manducō | to chew, gnaw on, masticate |
| 7 | Latin | mandūcus | glutton |
| 8 | Latin | -ucus | used to form the names of certain plants |
| 9 | Azerbaijani | uçmaq | to fly |
| 10 | Old Anatolian Turkish | اوچمق | to fly, to travel through the air without being in contact with a grounded surface |
| 11 | Proto-Turkic | uč- | to fly |