The History of Meals

This is an etymology heavy episode, which I hope you're as excited about as we are. First up, and as a sort of clue to how things are going to progress here, let's talk about the word meal. The grain meal comes from the Proto-Indo-European root malay, meaning a crush or grind. And this meaning has been around sort of forever. But eating time meal didn't come about until the 1200s or so, 1200 CE or so,. From the pi root me, meaning measure, through the Germanic slash Viking slash Frisian word meals.