Where does “banoffee pie” come from?
banoffee pie (English) comes from English PIE, from Middle English pie, from Old French pié, from Latin pēs, from Ancient Greek μέτρον, from Ancient Greek -τρον, from Proto-Hellenic -tron, from Proto-Indo-European -trom — Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
banoffee pie (English): A dessert made from bananas, toffee and cream on...
Definitions
- A dessert made from bananas, toffee and cream on...
Ancestry of “banoffee pie”, step by step
banoffee pie traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English PIE
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | PIE | A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.) |
| 2 | Middle English | pie | Alternative form of pye |
| 3 | Old French | pié | foot |
| 4 | Latin | pēs | a foot, in its senses as |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
via English toffee
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | toffee | A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard |
| 2 | English | Taffy | A Welshman |
| 3 | Welsh | Dafydd | David |
| 4 | Middle Welsh | Dauyð | — |
| 5 | Latin | David | David |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | Δαυίδ | David |
| 7 | Hebrew | דָּוִד | — |