Origin of bake
before 1000; Middle English
baken, Old English
bacan, past participle
bōc baked; cognate with Old High German
bahhan, past
buoh, Old Norse
baka; akin to Dutch
bakken, German
backen, Greek
phṓgein to roast; < IE alternating base
*bheHog-, bhəg-
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British Dictionary definitions for bake
bake
/ (beɪk) /
verb
noun
Word Origin for bake
Old English
bacan; related to Old Norse
baka, Old High German
bahhan to bake, Greek
phōgein to parch, roast