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