baken

Middle English

/ˈbaːkən/

verb
Definitions
  • To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of bread, pastry, etc, or meals involving that.
  • To undergo or experienced baking; to be baked or cooked in an oven.
  • To heat up; to process or work food or other items by heating or drying out.
  • (rare) To burn in the fires of Hell.
  • (rare) To cause one's own pain or torment.

Etymology

Inherited from Old English bacan (bake) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (bake, roast).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰeh₃g-

Gloss

bake, roast

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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