banquet

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
2. Proto-Germanic*bankiz
3. Proto-West Germanic*banki
4. Lombardicbank
5. Italianbanco
6. Italianbanchetto
7. Middle Frenchbanquet
8. Middle Englishbanket
9. English todaybanquet

From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation.

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