bakere

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bakere

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of bakeren

• backer, backere

From Old English bæcere, from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”); equivalent to baken +‎ -ere (agentive suffix).

bakere

1. baker
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4323-4325:

     Loke of Egipt the king, daun Pharao,
     His bakere and his boteler also,
     Wher they ne felte noon effect in dremes.

     Consider the king of Egypt, lord Pharaoh,
     His baker and his butler also,
     Whether or not they felt any effect in dreams.

• bakestere (“baxter”)

• baken

• English: baker
• Scots: bakar, baikar

• “bā̆kere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

bakere m

1. indefinite plural of baker