Translation
cake
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Word origin
From German Kuchen, cousin to English cake, which arrived in English from Old Norse kaka. A well-travelled Germanic baking word.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- Kuchen
- English cognates
- cake
Examples
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She made a sweet cake for the party.
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Do you want one more piece of cake?
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The children ate the whole cake.
covers the whole sweet-bakery family where English splits hairs: a small one is a , roughly a biscuit or bun, and a fancy cream-laden one is a . stays firmly on the savoury side of the counter. The suffix game continues with o, the cake shop, and the phrase every learner deploys at their first Esperanto gathering: ?
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Word family
Words built on kuko with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- kuketonoun
small cake, cupcake
kuko-et-
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 10: kuko, scivola, viando and 7 more words.