Etymograph

English

ensaymada

Ensaymada comes from Tagalog ensaymada ‘ensaimada’, from Catalan saïm ‘lard’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satisfy’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-1‘to satisfy’uncertain
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagīna2
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*sagīmen2reconstructed
  4. Catalanc. 1500–presentsaïm3‘lard’
  5. Catalanc. 1500–presentensaïmada4
  6. Spanishc. 1500–presentensaimada4
  7. Tagalogmodernensaymada4‘ensaimada’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2014ensaymada4

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin sagina
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Catalan saïm
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Catalan ensaïmada
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English ensaymada
  5. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2014, Claude Tayag, Central & Eastern Visayas: “By previous arrangement, we were made to try the…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-Wiktionary, Latin sagina‘to satisfy’uncertain
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsagīnaWiktionary, Catalan saïm
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*sagīmenWiktionary, Catalan saïmreconstructed
  4. Catalanc. 1500–presentsaïmWiktionary, Catalan ensaïmada‘lard’
  5. Catalanc. 1500–presentensaïmadaWiktionary, English ensaymada
  6. Spanishc. 1500–presentensaimadaWiktionary, English ensaymada
  7. TagalogmodernensaymadaWiktionary, English ensaymada‘ensaimada’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2014ensaymadaWiktionary, English ensaymada. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2014, Claude Tayag, Central & Eastern Visayas: “By previous arrangement, we were made to try the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satisfy’

sad, insane, secular, sane, sanity, saturation, sanitary, insatiable, hadron, saturate, sade, satiety, satiate, 17 more

Today it means

noun Synonym of ensaimada.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “ensaymada”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin sagina, Catalan saïm, Catalan ensaïmada. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- / ensaymada

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