Where does “Brotke” come from?

Brotke (Low German) comes from Low German -ke, from Middle Low German -eken, from Old Saxon -kīn, from Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn.

Brotke (Low German): bread, especially a roll or piece of bread

Definitions

  1. bread, especially a roll or piece of bread

Ancestry of “Brotke”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Low German-keused to form the diminutive of nouns and hypocoristic forms of proper nouns and other parts of speech
2Middle Low German-eken—
3Old Saxon-kīn—
4Proto-West Germanic*-ukīn—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn →Every word from Middle Low German -eken →Every word from Old Saxon -kīn →