Etymology

biscuit

bis·cuit
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Today it means: A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie. Full definition →

Middle English bisquyte ← Old French bescuit
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The story

  1. Old French · derived frombescuit
  2. Middle English · inherited frombisquyte
  3. English todaybiscuit

PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Old Latin duis Latin bis Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Latin coctus Early Medieval Latin biscoctus Old French bescuitbor. Middle English bisquyte English biscuit From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.

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