Foods & Eating Words in English
- beef – Latin bos, "ox, cow"
- beverage – Latin bibere, "to imbibe"
- bowl – Proto-Germanic bul, "a round vessel"
- bread – Old English bread, "small piece of food"
- broccoli – Italian broccolo, "sprout, cabbage sprout"
- cook – Latin coquere, "to cook, prepare food, ripen"
- corn – Proto-Germanic kurnam, "small seed"
- diet – Greek diaita, "way of life, regimen, dwelling"
- dinner – Old French disner, "breakfast"
- drink – Proto-Germanic drengkan, "to swallow up, engulf"
- eat – Proto-Germanic etanan, "to eat"
- food – Proto-Germanic fodon, "to tend, keep, pasture"
- fork – Latin furca, "pitchfork"
- juice – Latin jus, "broth, sauce, juice"
- knife – Old Norse knifr, "knife"
- liquor – Latin liquere, "be fluid"
- nut – Proto-Germanic khnut, "nut"
- meat – Proto-Germanic matiz, "type of sausage"
- nibble – Low German nibbeln, "to nibble, gnaw"
- pasta – Greek pasta, "salted mess of food"
- plate – Greek platys, "flat, broad"
- rice – Sanskrit vrihi-s, "rice"
- spinach – Persian aspanakh, "spinach leaves"
- spoon – Old English spon, "chip, shaving" (to eat with)
- tofu – Chinese doufu, "rotten beans"
- vegetable – Latin vegetare, "to enliven"
- wheat – Proto-Germanic khwaitijaz, "that which is white"