Bake

17th century, from Middle Low German bāke, from Old Frisian bāken, from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną. Cognate with Dutch baak, English beacon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːkə/

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• Homophone: Barke (some speakers)

Bake f (genitive Bake, plural Baken)

1. nautical traffic sign or buoy
2. a kind of road sign(s), used in Germany e.g. at level crossings

• Absperrbake, Baustellenbake, Funkbake, Leitbake, Verkehrsbake, Warnbake

• Boje

Bake

1. alternative form of Baak
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:

     Aneure vrem a Bake,

     [Another from the Beak,]

   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:

     Anoor vrem a Bake,

     [Another from the Beak,]

   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX, page 130:

     Anure vrem ee Bake,

     [Another from the Beak,]

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 18