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Cake

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means a sweet baked food made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients
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Stage 1 of 2
kaka
Old Norse · medieval
"a small baked item"
a small baked item, related to the native English word for bread loaves
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Stage 2 of 2
cake
English · 1200s
"a sweet baked dessert"
settled as the English word for a sweet baked dessert
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