Etymology

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Today it means: A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm. Full definition →

Dutch koekie ← Middle Dutch coeke ← Old Dutch *kuoko
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cookie · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Germanic*kōkô
  2. Old Dutch*kuoko
  3. Middle Dutchcoeke
  4. Dutchkoek
  5. Dutchkoekie
  6. English todaycookie

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook. The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

cookie · noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pekʷ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pékʷeti
  3. Proto-Italic*kʷekʷō
  4. Latin*quoquō
  5. Latincoquō
  6. Latincoquus
  7. Vulgar Latin*cocus
  8. Old Englishcōc
  9. Middle Englishcook
  10. Englishcook
  11. English todaycookie

From cook + -ie.

cookie · noun3

Corruption of cucoloris.

Cookie · proper noun4

From cookie, the snack food.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*kōkô all →

quicheCockaigne

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