Where does “cookie” come from?

Cookie comes from English cook with the diminutive suffix -y, from English cook, from Proto-Indo-European gog, related to Latin -ivus and Proto-Indo-European -kos.

cookie (English): A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp...

Definitions

  1. A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp...

Ancestry of “cookie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchkoekjecookie
2Dutchkoekcookie, cake, biscuit, wafer; Any type of cake or...
3Middle Dutchcoekecake
4Old Dutchkuoko—
5Proto-Germanickōkôcake
6Proto-Indo-Europeangōg-round, ball-shaped object; lump; clump

Words derived from “cookie”

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