English
bakemeat
Bakemeat comes from Middle English bake mete ‘any kind of cooked food which has a pastry…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- ‘to drip, to ooze, to wet’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₂d-‘to drip, to ooze, to wet’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*matiz‘food’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*mati‘food’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150mete‘food’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘food’
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500bake mete‘any kind of cooked food which has a pastry coating’
- Englishearliest quotation 1611bakemeat
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₂d-‘to drip, to ooze, to wet’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*matiz‘food’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*mati‘food’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150mete‘food’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘food’
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500bake mete‘any kind of cooked food which has a pastry coating’
- Englishearliest quotation 1611bakemeat
Earliest quotation: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “And in the vppermoſt baſket there was of all…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- ‘to drip, to ooze, to wet’
through Proto-Germanic *matiz ‘food’
through Old English mete ‘food’
through Middle English mete ‘food’
Today it means
noun Any baked product (such as a pie)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- / bakemeat