Where does “cooking” come from?
Cooking derives from the English gerund suffix -ing added to cook, which comes from Latin cocus, ultimately from Latin coquo meaning to cook or prepare food by heat.
cooking (English): The process of preparing food by using heat; An...
Definitions
- The process of preparing food by using heat; An...
Ancestry of “cooking”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 2 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 3 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 4 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kukaz | cook |
| 7 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 8 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 9 | Latin | quoquo | ablative masculine singular of quisquis; ablative... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |