Timeline for Words with "bi-" prefix that no longer mean "two"
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| Jun 27, 2018 at 8:56 | comment | added | Cubic | @WoJ Cakes, biscuits and bread are all very much related goods. Mostly small variations in the makeup of the dough, baking time and toppings. | |
| Jun 27, 2018 at 6:39 | comment | added | WoJ | Interesting - a biscotte in French is a slice of bread (so: baked) and then dried. It is not sweet (but is usually used with something sweet on top). And then we have biscuit which is a small cake, usually dry-ish but always sweet. | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 16:38 | comment | added | Zachiel | All sort of cookies are "biscotti" to us Italians. | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 21:00 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @KarlG: I suspect that some Italians called them biscotti when they immigrated 150 years ago. Names differ in various dialects. (Of English as well as of Italian—think hoagie, sub, poorboy, grinder, hero.) | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 18:36 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | Is the "Triscuit" thrice-cooked? | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 16:05 | comment | added | KarlG | @PeterShor: it's the American name, but the Italians call them cantucci/cantuccini with almonds or tozzetti with hazelnuts. | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 15:19 | comment | added | Peter Shor | In the U.S., biscotti refers to a type of Italian cookie (U.K. biscuit) which actually is twice cooked. | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 14:14 | comment | added | Oliver Mason | @JanusBahsJacquet In which case I stand corrected! | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 14:05 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @OliverMason It’s not. They’re separate prefixes. Bis in Latin is an adverb meaning ‘twice’, whereas bi- is simply the (historically regular) combining form of the numeral duō ‘two’. So one means ‘two’, the other means ‘twice’. | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 13:47 | history | edited | Jim Mack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | Oliver Mason | I would think bis- would be an allomorphic variant of bi- in this case, due to ease of pronunciation. | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 13:45 | history | answered | Jim Mack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |