Etymology

underbake

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Today it means: To bake insufficiently, or less than usual. Full definition →

English bake ← Middle English baken ← Old English bacan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁entér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂én
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰí
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér
  7. Proto-Germanic*under
  8. Proto-West Germanic*undar
  9. Old Englishunder-
  10. Middle Englishunder-
  11. Englishunder-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₃g-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₃g-
  14. Proto-Germanic*bakaną
  15. Proto-West Germanic*bakan
  16. Old Englishbacan
  17. Middle Englishbaken
  18. Englishbake
  19. English todayunderbake

From under- + bake.

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