Re: [tied] bake

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

> it seems there is a little difference between german and germanic:-)
> Torsten meant english "bake" and not german "baken". The all

cognates

> from the previous email are related to the german word "bake"= a

frisian

> word.
>
> The German "bähen" has in this case nothing to do with

German "beken"

> but ist somehow related to "backen"= english "to bake" having

cognates

> in this case (to bake) in Greek "phogein"
>
> The finnish word is "paakku", I lost an "a" there, mia culpa.
>

Erh, I knew that. My original question, to which I still don't know
the answer, was whether that preparing-food word was related to the
sharing/distributing(-food?) word in Iranian that eventually in tht
Slavic languages became 'Bog' "God" (and the root of the 'bogat-
' "rich" word).

Torsten