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Keks

(Anglès)

cookie (US), biscuit (UK)

Freqüència

C1
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/keːks/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

Borrowed from English cakes, 1900s. Popularized by German food company Bahlsen which changed the brand name of their biscuits from Leibniz-Cakes to Leibniz-Keks in 1911; at the time, the plural was also Keks. Compare Danish kiks, Estonian keeks, Faroese keks, Finnish keksi, Icelandic kex, Norwegian kjeks, and Swedish kex, all ‘cookie, biscuit, cracker’.

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