Where does “biscuit” come from?
Biscuit comes from English biscuit, which derives from English bisket, itself from English bisket, tracing back through English biscuit and English cook.
biscuit (English): A small, flat, baked good which is either hard...
Definitions
- A small, flat, baked good which is either hard...
Ancestry of “biscuit”, step by step
biscuit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English bisket
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bisket | Obsolete spelling of biscuit |
| 2 | Old French | bescuit | biscuit |
| 3 | Old French | bescuire | — |
| 4 | Old French | cuire | to cook |
| 5 | Late Latin | coco | — |
| 6 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 7 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 8 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 9 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 10 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | kukaz | cook |
| 13 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 14 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 15 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
via Middle English bisquyte
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | bisquyte | biscuit |