bacoun

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bakoun, bacone, bakone, bacon, bakon, bakyn

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun, from Frankish *bakō, from Proto-Germanic *bakô. Compare bak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˈkuːn/, /ˈbaːkun/, /ˈbaːkən/

Noun

bacoun (plural bacouns)

1. Cured meat from the back and sides of a pig; bacon.
2. Meat from the back and sides of a pig; pork.
3. (rare) The corpse of a pig; a dead pig.

Descendants

• English: bacon (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: bawcon
• → Welsh: bacwn
• Yola: bawkoon, bawcoon, bacoon, bakoon

References

• “bācǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.