Borrowed from French gâteau, from Old French gastel, wastel, borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German wastel, from common Germanic *wastilaz, derived from Proto-Indo-European *wes- "to eat".
Borrowed from French gâteau, from Old French gastel, wastel, borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German wastel, from common Germanic *wastilaz, derived from Proto-Indo-European *wes- "to eat".