The story
- Old French · derived frommangeoire
- Middle English · inherited frommanger
- English todaymanger
From Middle English manger, from Old French mangeoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger). Cognate with Galician manxadoira, Italian mangiatoia, Occitan manjadoira, French mangeoire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.