Etymology

baken

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Middle English baken ← Old English bacen
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frombacen
  2. Middle English · inherited frombaken
  3. English todaybaken

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacen, ġebacen, past participle of bacan (“to bake”). Cognate with Scots baken (“baked”), Dutch gebakken (“baked”). More at bake.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishbaken all →

bake

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.