Etymology

frankenfood

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English food ← Middle English fode ← Old English fōda
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The story

  1. Englishfranken-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-
  3. Proto-Germanic*fōdô
  4. Old Englishfōda
  5. Middle Englishfode
  6. Englishfood
  7. English todayfrankenfood

From franken- + food.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.