pannekake.
a pancake, especially the thin Norwegian type: a flat, soft cake made from a batter of flour, milk and egg, fried on both sides in a pan
Meaning & usage
a pancake, especially the thin Norwegian type: a flat, soft cake made from a batter of flour, milk and egg, fried on both sides in a pan
Pannekaker med blåbærsyltetøy.
Where this word comes from
From panne (“pan”) + kake (“cake”), literally “pan cake”. The first element continues Old Norse panna (“pan”), from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ; the second reflects Danish kage (“cake”), from Old Danish kakæ, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ. Compare the parallel formations Norwegian Nynorsk pannekake, Danish pandekage, Swedish pannkaka, Icelandic pönnukaka, Faroese pannukøka, German Pfannkuchen, Dutch pannenkoek and English pancake.
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