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Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne, 1567
From Old Frenchcocagne, of obscure origin, but the many references to sweet delicacies in the 13th century poem that is the first record of the word suggest it may have come from a Germanic word for a cake, probably the ancestor of the modern German Kuchen.[1][2]
See also Proto-Germanic*kōkô.
May also relate to or be influenced by Old Irishcucainn (“food ration, sweet pie”).[3]
^ Emily K. Yoder, "The Monk’s Paradise in The Land of Cockaygne and the Navigatio Sancti Brendani, " Papers on Language and Literature, 19 (1983), 227—238.
