baken

Etymology

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacen, ġebacen, past participle of bacan (“to bake”). Cognate with Scots baken (“baked”), Dutch gebakken (“baked”). More at bake.

Verb

baken

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) Alternative past participle of bake.

Anagrams

• banke, e-bank

Etymology

From Middle Dutch baken, from Old Frisian bāken. Displaced Middle Dutch boken, from Old Dutch *bōkan. Both forms originate from Proto-Germanic *baukną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːkə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːkən

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Noun

baken n (plural bakens, diminutive bakentje n)

1. beacon

Etymology

From Old High German bachan, bahhan; from Proto-Germanic *bakaną. Cognate with German backen, English bake, Dutch bakken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːken/, [ˈbaːkən]

Verb

baken (third-person singular present baakt, past participle gebak, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. to bake

Etymology

From Old English bacan, cognate with Dutch bakken, German backen, Old Norse baka, Danish bage, and also Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g-.

Verb

baken

1. to bake

Noun

baken m

1. definite singular of bak

Alternative forms

• baket

Noun

baken m, n

1. definite masculine singular of bak

Noun

baken

1. definite singular of bak
2. definite plural of bak