English

Tunis cake

Tunis + cake

A compound of Tunis + cake

Arabic تُونِس

English Tunis

Proto-Germanic *kakǭ ‘cake’

Old Norse kaka ‘cake’

Middle English cake

English cake

Today it means

noun A sponge cake topped with a thick chocolate layer.

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