coeke

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *kuoko, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô.

Noun

coeke m

1. cake

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• couke
• coec

Descendants

• Dutch: koek
  • Afrikaans: koek
    • → Sotho: kuku
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: kuku
  • Jersey Dutch: kuk
  • → Sranan Tongo: kuku
    • → Lokono: kuku
    • → Aukan: kuku
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: kuku
    • → Caribbean Javanese: kuku
    • → Kwinti: kúku
    • → Saramaccan: kúku
  • ⇒ Dutch: koekje, koekie (colloquial) (diminutive)
    • → English: cookie (see there for further descendants)
    • Negerhollands: koeki, kuki, kukkie
• Limburgish: kook
• → Bourguignon: couque
• → French: couque
  • French: cocagne
    • →? English: Cockaigne
• → Picard: couque

Further reading

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “coeke”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN