Etymology

caky

C3A1K5Y4

Today it means: Resembling cake in texture. Full definition →

English cake ← Middle English cake ← Old Norse kaka
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*kakǭ
  2. Old Norsekaka
  3. Middle Englishcake
  4. Englishcake
  5. English todaycaky

From cake + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.