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