English
smoked
Smoked comes from Middle English smoked.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500smoked
- Englishearliest quotation 1908same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500smoked
- Englishearliest quotation 1908same form
Earliest quotation: 1908, G. K. Chesterton: “'A pair of smoked spectacles will do it,' he…”
Formed from smoke + -ed
Proto-Indo-European *smug- ‘to smoke’
Proto-Germanic *smukô ‘smoke’
Old English smoca
Middle English smoke
English smoke
Every English word from Middle English smoked
Today it means
adj Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English smoked / smoked