From Old English 'bæcere,' from 'bacan' (to bake) — a purely Germanic word with no cognates outside the family, a rare linguistic island.
From Old English 'bæcere' (one who bakes), an agent noun from 'bacan' (to bake), from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (to bake), possibly from PIE *bʰōg- (to warm, to roast). The word 'bake' is uniquely Germanic — it has no certain cognates outside the Germanic family, which makes its PIE ancestry uncertain. Some scholars connect it to Greek 'phṓgein' (to roast