Where does “Biscuitgate” come from?
Biscuitgate (English) comes from English biscuit, from English bisket, from Old French bescuit, from Old French bescuire, from Old French cuire, from Late Latin coco, from Latin coquō, from English Cook.
Biscuitgate (English): A minor controversy of 2009, when prime minister Gordon Brown was accused of sidestepping questions about his favourite kind of biscuit during an online chat
Definitions
- A minor controversy of 2009, when prime minister Gordon Brown was accused of sidestepping questions about his favourite kind of biscuit during an online chat
Ancestry of “Biscuitgate”, step by step
Biscuitgate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English biscuit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | biscuit | A small, flat, baked good which is either hard... |
| 2 | English | bisket | Obsolete spelling of biscuit |
| 3 | Old French | bescuit | biscuit |
| 4 | Old French | bescuire | — |
| 5 | Old French | cuire | to cook |
| 6 | Late Latin | coco | — |
| 7 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 8 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 9 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 10 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 11 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 13 | Latin | coquere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |
via English gate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | gate | A doorlike structure outside a house; Doorway,... |
| 2 | Middle English | gate | An entryway or entrance to a settlement or... |
| 3 | Old English | ġeat | gate; a gate, door |
| 4 | Old French | gaut | forest, woods, woodland |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | walþu | forest |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | walþuz | forest |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wel- | to see |