English

eat-all-you-can

All-you-can-eat.

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    Origin

    From eat + all + you + can.

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    • partEnglisheat “To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowin…”
      • inheritedMiddle Englisheten
        • inheritedOld Englishetan “to eat”
        • inheritedOld Englisheten
        • inheritedOld Englisheoten “giant, monster, enemy”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishete
        • inheritedOld Englishæt “food, eating”
    • partEnglishall “Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoti…”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishall
        • inheritedOld Englisheall
    • partEnglishyou “The people spoken, or written to, as an object.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishyow
        • inheritedOld Englishēow “Wo!, Alas!”
    • partEnglishcan “To know how to.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishcunnen “to try”
        • inheritedOld Englishcunnan “to know how to, be able to”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishcanne
        • inheritedOld Englishcanne “glass, container, cup, jar”

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