« to eat » en sept langues
Sensto eat
Espagnol
/koˈmeɾ/
héréditaire
From COMEDERE 'to eat up' — Latin with a prefix.
Français
/mɑ̃ʒe/
autre source · Latin MANDŪCĀRE 'to chew, munch'
Italien
/manˈdʒare/
autre source · Old French manjier, from Latin MANDŪCĀRE
Portugais
/koˈmeh/
héréditaire
Roumain
/mɨnˈka/
autre source · Latin MANDŪCĀRE 'to chew, munch'
Romanian inherited MANDŪCĀRE directly, while Italian got it through French.
Catalan
/mənˈʒa/
autre source · Latin MANDŪCĀRE 'to chew, munch', probably via Occitan or Old French
Anglais
/it/
parenté indo-européenne · PIE *h₁ed-
'Eat' is a distant cognate of the EDERE inside COM-EDERE.
L’ancêtre latin
COMEDERE‘to eat up’
Les six sœurs en descendent, sauf indication contraire ci-dessous.
L’histoire
Classical EDERE 'to eat' was too short to survive. Spanish kept the prefixed COMEDERE; French and Italian chose a slangy 'to munch' — Italian probably by way of Old French.
Parents anglais: comestible (from COMEDERE); mandible (from MANDERE, 'to chew')
L’apprendre
Dans une phrase
- esComemos a las nueve.
- frOn mange à neuf heures.
- itMangiamo alle nove.
- ptA gente come às nove.
- roMâncăm la nouă.
- caMengem a les nou.
- enWe eat at nine.