Etymology
1. O.E.
bacan "to bake," from P.Gmc.
*bakanan (cf. O.N.
baka, M.Du.
backen, O.H.G.
bahhan), from PIE base
*bhog- "to warm, roast, bake" (cf. Gk.
phogein "to roast").
Baker is O.E.
bæcere. Bakery "place for making bread" is from 1857, replacing earlier
bakehouse; as "shop where baked goods are sold" it was noted 19c. as an Americanism.
Baker's dozen "thirteen" is from 1599.
"These dealers [hucksters] ... on purchasing their bread from the bakers, were privileged by law to receive thirteen batches for twelve, and this would seem to have been the extent of their profits. Hence the expression, still in use, 'A baker's dozen.' " [H.T. Riley, "Liber Albus," 1859]
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g-
5. Proto-Germanic *bakaną
6. Proto-West Germanic *bakan
7. Old English bacan
8. Middle English baken
9. English bake
10. From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”).
11. Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb). See: Middle English '
baken', Old English '
bacan', Proto-Germanic '
*bakaną', Dutch '
bakken', Low Saxon 'backen', German, old spelling '
backen', Norwegian '
bake', Danish '
bage'.
Verbs referencing "bake"
German, old spelling
backen, Ido bakar, Indonesian
bakar, German, Pennsylvania
backe, Luxembourgish
baken, Danish
bage, Russian
багроветь, Belize Creole bayk.