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