Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA person who prepares food. · The head cook of a manor house. · The degree or quality of cookedness of food. · The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Archaic Latin -os Latin -us Latin coquus Vulgar Latin *cocusbor. Old English cōc Middle English cook English cook From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khoch (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), German Koch (“cook”), Luxembourgish Kach (“cook”), Danish kok (“cook”), Icelandic kokkur (“cook”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kokk (“cook”), Swedish kock (“cook”). Also compare Proto-West Germanic *kokōn (“to cook”) (whence North Frisian kööge, kööki (“to cook, boil”), West Frisian koaitsje (“to cook”), Cimbrian khochan, khòchan (“to cook”), Dutch koken (“to cook”), German kochen (“to cook”), Limburgish kaoke, kauche (“to cook”), Luxembourgish kachen (“to cook”), Vilamovian kocha, koha (“to cook”), Yiddish קאָכן (kokhn, “to cook”)), from Late Latin cocō (“to cook”).
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- Inherited-form mentioncookenm
- Inherited-form mentioncōcang · a cook
- Derivation mentioncocusla
- Inherited-form mention*pekʷ-ine-pro · to cook, become ripe
- Cognate mentionkhochcim · cook
- Cognate mentionkoknl · cook
- Cognate mentionKochde · cook
- Cognate mentionKachlb · cook
- Cognate mentionkokda · cook
- Cognate mentionkokkuris · cook
- Cognate mentionkocksv · cook
- Inherited-form mention*kokōngmw-pro · to cook
- Cognate mentionköögefrr
- Cognate mentionkoaitsjefy · to cook
- Cognate mentionkhochancim
- Cognate mentionkokennl · to cook
- Cognate mentionkochende · to cook
- Cognate mentionkaokeli
- Cognate mentionkachenlb · to cook
- Cognate mentionkochawym
- Cognate mentionקאָכןyi · to cook
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