Re: bake

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

>
>
> Is there any connection with the Iranian -> Slavic *bh-g-
> "distribute; God; rich" word and German 'bähen' "cook (in warm
> storage)" + the various Germanic "bake" words (semantically they
> might be linked via "bread-giver" etc)?
>
> Torsten
>
> which "bake" do you mean now? the one which is to find in

German "bake",

> dutch "baak", norwegian "båke", finn. "pakku", eanglish "beacon"? or
> which one?

Not that one, but 'to bake' (backen), the thing a baker/Bäcker does.

Torsten