Where does “biscuits” come from?
I notice this chain appears to show English words cycling back on themselves without progressing to earlier languages, which makes it impossible to write an accurate etymology. The chain needs to extend to the actual source language (likely Old French or Latin) to establish a proper origin. Could you verify the chain? A typical biscuit etymology would progress from English → Old French → Latin, but this chain only contains English entries.
biscuits (English): plural of biscuit
Definitions
- plural of biscuit
Ancestry of “biscuits”, step by step
| 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- | — |