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Re:There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast by swozey on Monday May 23, 2016 @02:18PM (#11755729)
He's completely right, the origin of "breakfast" is ending your nightly fast. It's been in use since at least the 15th century, prior to that (Old English) morgenmete was used; morning meal.
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Re:There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast by henriquemaia on Monday May 23, 2016 @04:05PM (#11756492)
The same logic happens with the Portuguese word "desjejum", which can be broken in almost the same manner, meaning "that [meal] which breaks your fast (des+jejum).
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Re:There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast by glandium on Monday May 23, 2016 @06:45PM (#11757634)
Interestingly, in french, it's the same kind of roots (déjeuner, dé- (quite like the un- prefix in english), jeuner (fast)), but the word doesn't actually point to the morning meal, but instead, it points to lunch. The word for the morning meal is "petit déjeuner", literally "small un-fast". Presumably, people were not having a morning meal a long time ago.
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