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Where does “bake mete” come from?

bake mete (Middle English) comes from Middle English baken, from Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g- — to bake, to roast, to fry.

bake mete (Middle English): Any kind of cooked food which has a pastry...

Definitions

  1. Any kind of cooked food which has a pastry...

Ancestry of “bake mete”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishbakenTo bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of...
2Old Englishbacanto bake
3Proto-West Germanicbakanto bake
4Proto-Germanicbakanąto bake
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeh₃g-to bake, to roast, to fry

Words derived from “bake mete”

  • bakemeat
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