Where does “precocer” come from?
precocer (Galician) comes from Galician cocer, from Old Portuguese cozer, from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquo, from Latin quoquo, from Proto-Italic kʷekʷō, from Proto-Indo-European pékʷeti, from Proto-Indo-European pekʷ-.
precocer (Galician): to parbake to bake (bread or dough) partially so it can be rapidly frozen for storage
Definitions
- to parbake to bake (bread or dough) partially so it can be rapidly frozen for storage
Ancestry of “precocer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | cocer | to boil, stew; to cook; to bake |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | cozer | to cook |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | cocere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | coquo | I cook; I prepare food; I ripen; I roast, I dry |
| 5 | Latin | quoquo | ablative masculine singular of quisquis; ablative... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |