Etymograph

English

griddlecake

From griddle + cake.

A compound of griddle + cake

Latin crāticulum

Old French greil ‘grill’

Anglo-Norman gredil

Middle English gridil ‘an iron grate or grid’

English griddle

Proto-Germanic *kakǭ ‘cake’

Old Norse kaka ‘cake’

Middle English cake

English cake

Today it means

noun Any of various forms of small pancake made from a spoonful of batter cooked on a griddle.

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

Etymograph / griddlecake