Words that come from Old Norse kaka

190 words across 43 languages descend from Old Norse kaka — including cake, cakes, pancake, cheesecake, cupcake, cakewalk, fruitcake, shortcake.

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English (69)

Norwegian Bokmål (14)

Finnish (14)

Swedish (10)

Norwegian Nynorsk (10)

Danish (7)

Japanese (6)

Faroese (6)

Spanish (6)

French (3)

Korean (3)

Russian (3)

German (3)

Portuguese (3)

Hungarian (2)

Middle English (2)

Nauruan (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Dutch (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Turkish (1)

Italian (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Fijian (1)

Maori (1)

Arabic (1)

Hebrew (1)

Lao (1)

Chinese (1)

Zulu (1)

Burmese (1)

Tagalog (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Albanian (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Thai (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Swahili (1)

Taos (1)

Cebuano (1)

Indonesian (1)

Old Danish (1)