cake
Middle English
/ˈkaːk(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- cake any sort of flat doughy food
- (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
- (Christianity) The communion wafer or host.
- (rare) A lump, boil, or ball; a cake-shaped object.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse kaka (cake) derived from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (cake).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kakǭ
Gloss
cake
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Welsh cake English
- ash cake English
- ashcake English
- babycakes English
- barmcake English
- battercake English
- beancake English
- beefcake English
- breadcake English
- bridecake English
- cake English
- cakeage English
- cakebaker English
- cakebox English
- cakecrumb English
- cakehole English
- cakeism English
- cakeless English
- cakelike English
- cakemaker English
- cakemaking English
- cakeman English
- cakepan English
- cakery English
- cakes English
- cakeshop English
- cakestand English
- cakewoman English
- caky English
- cheesecake English
- clapcake English
- coffee cake English
- corncake English
- cupcake English
- filter cake English
- fishcake English
- friedcake English
- fruitcake English
- fuckcake English
- funnel cake English
- griddlecake English
- hoecake English
- honeycake English
- hotcake English
- mooncake English
- nubcake English
- nutcake English
- oatcake English
- oilcake English
- pancake English
- plumcake English
- potcake English
- seedcake English
- shitcakes English
- shortcake English
- soycake English
- sweetcakes English
- teacake English
- tharcake English
- uncake English
- yellowcake English
- kakku Finnish
- Keks German
- cake Dutch, Flemish
- cake French
- кек Russian
- cake Spanish, Castilian
- *gog Proto-Indo-European
- kake Norwegian Bokmål
- kjeks Norwegian Bokmål
- *kakǭ Proto-Germanic
- kex Swedish
- ケーキ Japanese
- kake Norwegian Nynorsk
- kjeks Norwegian Nynorsk
- pancake Middle English
- panne Middle English
- kaka Old Norse
- kiks Danish
- كيك Arabic
- केक Hindi
- เค้ก Thai
- keyk Cebuano
- keik Indonesian
- cacen Welsh
- kek Turkish
- køka Faroese
- keyk Tagalog
- ကိတ်မုန့် Burmese
- kek Albanian
- coca Old Dutch
- কে’ক Assamese
- keki Swahili
- kaka Old Swedish
- 케이크 Korean
- ikhekhe Zulu
- cáca Middle Irish
- ikeki Xhosa
- ikeyiki Xhosa
- kek Tok Pisin
- ເຄັກ Lao
- keke Maori
- likhekhe Swati
- كيكة Hijazi Arabic
- keks Crimean Tatar
- kakæ Old Danish
- كيكة Gulf Arabic
- keke Fijian
- kek Fiji Hindi
- kèke’éna Taos
- keik Nauru