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
- A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp...
Ancestry of “cookie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Dutch | koekje | cookie |
| 2 | Dutch | koek | cookie, cake, biscuit, wafer; Any type of cake or... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | coeke | cake |
| 4 | Old Dutch | kuoko | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kōkô | cake |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | gōg- | round, ball-shaped object; lump; clump |
Words derived from “cookie”