beignet
French
noun
Definitions
- beignet (fritter filled with fruit etc)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French bignet inherited from Old French bignet (fried dough enveloping a food substance) derived from Frankish *bungjo (bump, swelling, lump, a swelling, little clump) derived from Proto-Germanic *bungô derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (thick, dense, fat) affix from French beigne.
Origin
French
beigne
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Chelsea bun English
- beignet English
- bun English
- bun fight English
- bunfight English
- bunhead English
- bunless English
- bunlike English
- bunned English
- bunny English
- honeybun English
- rockbun English
- beignet Finnish
- bignè Italian
- appelbeignet Dutch, Flemish
- beignet Dutch, Flemish
- bonk Dutch, Flemish
- zeebonk Dutch, Flemish
- beigne French
- beigner French
- *bʰenǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰn̥ǵʰús Proto-Indo-European
- *bungô Proto-Germanic
- *bunkō Proto-Germanic
- बहु Sanskrit
- बहुत्व Sanskrit
- বহুত্ৱ, बहुत्व Sanskrit
- bunne Middle English
- bunga Old Norse
- bignet Old French
- bonge Old French
- bugne Old French
- bonc Middle Dutch
- bonnach Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- bonnach-uighe Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- bignet Middle French
- *bʰaȷ́ʰu-lás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *bungjo Frankish
- bond West Flemish