Etymology

bakehouse

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Today it means: A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods. Full definition →

Middle English bakhows ← Old English bæchūs ← Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*bakahūs“bakehouse”
  2. Old English · inherited frombæchūs“bakery, bakehouse”
  3. Middle English · inherited frombakhows
  4. English todaybakehouse

From Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs (“bakehouse”), equivalent to bake + house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous (“bakehouse, bakery”), Saterland Frisian Bakhuus (“bakehouse”), West Frisian bakkhûs (“bakehouse”), Dutch bakhuis (“bakehouse”), German Low German Backhuus (“bakehouse”), German Backhaus (“bakehouse, bakery”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishbæchūs all →

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