Where does “baken” come from?

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

baken (Middle English): To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of...

Definitions

  1. To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of...

Ancestry of “baken”, step by step

baken traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old English bacan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishbacanto bake
2Proto-West Germanicbakanto bake
3Proto-Germanicbakanąto bake
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeh₃g-to bake, to roast, to fry

via Middle English bake mete

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishbake meteAny kind of cooked food which has a pastry...
2Middle EnglishbakeAlternative form of bakke; Alternative form of...
3Middle Englishbakkebat; Alternative form of bak
4Old Swedishnattbakka—

Words derived from “baken”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g- →Every word from Proto-Germanic bakaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic bakan →