bake

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To cook food using dry heat in an oven.

   She baked a cake for her brother's birthday.

2. 2
   verb

   To become very hot, especially from the sun or hot weather.

   We were baking on the beach in the afternoon sun.

3. 3
   verb

   To make something hard or dry using heat.

   The clay bricks were left to bake in the sun.

Simplified etymology

Bake is inherited from Old English and comes from a Germanic root also represented by batch. Batch was first recorded in late Middle English with the sense “the process of baking.”

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (…

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