Etymology Explorer › Tocharian B

Where does “cake” come from?

cake (Tocharian B) comes from Proto-Indo-European tekʷ- — to run, to flow.

cake (Tocharian B): river

Definitions

  1. river

Ancestry of “cake”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeantekʷ-to run, to flow
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