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Where does “mâncărime” come from?

mâncărime (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.

mâncărime (Romanian): itchiness, itch

Definitions

  1. itchiness, itch

Ancestry of “mâncărime”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianmâncarefood; eating
2Romanianmâncato eat; to be eaten; to eat away at, corrode;...
3Vulgar Latinmanucare—
4Latinmanducāre—
5Latinmanducō—
6Latinmandūcus—
7Latin-ucusused to form the names of certain plants
8Azerbaijaniuçmaq—
9Old Anatolian Turkishاوچمق—
10Proto-Turkicuč-to fly
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