bake mete

Middle English

Alternative forms

• baken mete, bakun mete, bakemete

Etymology

From baken, bake (the past participle of baken (“to bake”)), and mete (“food”); thus literally "baked food".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːk(ə)mɛ̞ːt(ə)/, /ˈbaːkənmɛ̞ːt(ə)/

Noun

bake mete (plural bake metes)

1. Any kind of cooked food which has a pastry coating.

Descendants

• English: bakemeat (obsolete)
• Scots: bakement (reinterpreted)

References

• “bāke(n mēte, bāke-mēte, phrase & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 October 2018.