Etymograph

English

bannock

Bannock comes from Old Irish bannach.

  1. Old Irishc. 600–900bannach
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150bannuc‘scone’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bannoke
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1850bannock

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Old Irishc. 600–900bannach
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150bannuc‘scone’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bannoke
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1850bannock

Earliest quotation: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology: “It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of…”

The story

From Middle English bannoke, from Old English bannuc, perhaps from a Goidelic word (compare Irish bonnóg, Manx bonnag, Scottish Gaelic bonnach), possibly from Latin pānicum (‘millet’).

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- ‘to twist’

spin, 11 more

through Latin pānis ‘bread’

company, pain, companion, accompaniment, pannier, 12 more

through Latin pānicum ‘millet’

panic, 2 more

Today it means

noun An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Irish bannach / bannock

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