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Subject: <span style="white-space:nowrap">Etymology</span></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Lowlanders, <br>
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I believe it is fair to posit the general Germanic root of the verb complex “to
bake” (both transitively and intransitively) as *<i>bak-</i>.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In Low Saxon ("Low German") and in Low-Saxon-influenced German
varieties, (*<i>bak-</i> >) <i>backen</i> has the additional (also transitive
and intransitive) meaning “to adhere”, “to stick”. I wonder if this is unique
to these varieties or if there is a similar situation in other varieties as well.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The <i>Herkunftsduden</i> suggests that <i>backen</i>
originally referred to the firing of tiles and bricks, perhaps pottery as well,
and only later spread to the cooking of baked good, and there is the
implication that the meaning “to stick” developed with regard to sticky clay.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I am curious because baking bread may be the most ancient
activity of baking dough, most likely baking of flat bread, something that has
been done throughout most of Eurasia and in fact throughout most of the world. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In some Turkic language varieties, “to bake” and “to stick”
can be expressed with the same verbs. This appears to be based on the (apparently
Persian-derived) Middle Eastern, Central Asian and South Asian practice of sticking
disks of dough to the walls of a (<i>tandur</i> >) <i>tanur</i> (~ <i>tanoor</i>)
oven for baking breads like <i>nân</i> and <i>pita</i>. (See attached picture.)
So, for instance in Uyghur<i> </i>(a Turkic language of Eastern Turkestan in Western
China and in other parts of Eastern Central Asia) the verb <i>yaq-</i> by
itself means something like “to stick or slap something onto something”, but also
“to light”, “to fire” or “to roast”. Specifically, <i>nan yaqmaq</i> (<span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL">نان ياقماق</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, нан йақмақ) means ‘to bake bread’.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Your input would be appreciated.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</font></p></div><p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">=========================================================<br>Send posting submissions to <a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>.<br>
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