Where does “bakehouse” come from?

bakehouse (English) comes from Middle English bakhows, from Old English bæchūs, from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs — bakehouse, bakery.

bakehouse (English): A building or an apartment used for the preparing...

Definitions

  1. A building or an apartment used for the preparing...

Ancestry of “bakehouse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishbakhowsA bakery
2Old Englishbæchūsbakery, bakehouse
3Proto-West Germanic*bakahūsbakehouse, bakery

Words derived from “bakehouse”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs →Every word from Old English bæchūs →Every word from Middle English bakhows →