English
esca
Esca comes from Latin ēsca ‘bait’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- ‘to eat’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁ed-‘to eat’root as named
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēsca‘bait’
- Englishtodayesca
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁ed-‘to eat’root as named
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēsca‘bait’
- Englishtodayesca
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- ‘to eat’
eat, et, anna, ana, edible, obesity, ent, fret, etch, phage, anodyne, 21 more
Another origin of esca
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skēlō‘bowl’uncertain
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEscala‘bowl’
- Galicianmodernescá‘esca, a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 6–9 L depending on the…’
- Englishtodayesca
From Galician escá, from Hispanic Late Latin scala (‘bowl’) attested in Isidore of Seville, probably from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *skēlō (‘bowl’).
Today it means
noun The fleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that acts as a lure for its prey.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- / esca