a sponge cake, i.e. a cake made with a chemical leavening agent (e.g. baking powder), making it light and airy (as opposed to a denser torte) · a cookie
çekim: çoğul gâteaux
köken: Inherited from Middle French gasteau, from Old French gastel, from Frankish *wastil, from Proto-Germanic *wastilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to eat; consume”). Compare Old English wist (“food; provision; feast”) and obsolete English wastel, Sicilian guasteḍḍa (“a kind of round bread”).
aile: cerise sur le gâteau, c'est du gâteau, fourchette à gâteau, gâteau de Noël, gâteau de riz, gâteau de voyage, gâteau mille crêpes, gâteau sec, gâteau sous la cerise, part du gâteau
köken: Shift from ねぶる (neburu), from the same root with Old Japanese 寝 (nu) (whence 寝る (neru, “to sleep; to lie down”)), in turn from Proto-Japonic *naynpuru. Cognate with Kunigami 眠ん (ninbin /níɴbîɴ/), Northern Amami Ōshima 眠るり (nïbururi), Okinawan 眠じゅん (ninjun /níɴdʑùɴ/), Okinoerabu 眠ゆん (nibuyun /nìbújúɴ/), Southern Amami Ōshima 眠っゆむっ (nïpyum /nɨ́pjùm̩/), 眠りゅむっ (nïpryum /nɨ́pɾʲùm̩/),…