bakeapple n also baygapple. The first element was borrowed and modified in Labrador from an Eskimo word, now appik, in the 1770s and combined with English apple. Cp Labrador Inuit 21 appik 'bakeapple'; DARE baked-apple berry [1889]-1981 [Alaska]; PRATT ~ (1916-).
   2 [1867] 1989 CHIMMO (ed Kirwin) 24 [In the schooner cabin were] a small square table in the centre, a dish containing bake-apples (which grow in abundance on shore) which [the women] were picking for a stew! [(c1889) 1970 JANNASCH 47 Vor den Hundebeeren wurde gewarnt, denn sie sollten Leibweh und Erbrechen verursachen, weshalb auch Lea unsre Sammelergebnisse sorgsam prüfte. Die köstlichste aller Beeren aber war die Apik-Beere (norweg. Multebeer). Sie war in grösserer Zahl im sumpfigen Uferstreifen am Fusse der Sophie zu finden.] [1975 "Labrador Childhood," trans. L.H. Neatby, 63 There were several kinds of fruit to be picked of which the blueberry and the whortleberry were the most desired. We were cautioned against the "Hundebeere" as apt to cause colic and vomiting, so Leah took careful note of what we were picking. The tastiest of all these fruits was the Apik-Beere (in Norwegian the Multe-beere). It was plentiful along the swampy banks at the foot of Mount Sophie.] 1909 BROWNE 200 The berry which is so characteristic of Labrador is the succulent Cloudberry, here called 'Bakeapple'... It is supposed to be a sovereign remedy for scorbutic diseases; and is in great use amongst the Esquimaux, who call it Akbik. ... We find several places named Akbik, Akbiktok, i.e., places where the Bakeapple grows. 1924 Deep-Sea Fishers xii (4), 139 Bake apples--baygapple--Warted red berries, ripening late in the summer on low growing plants. The principal berry on the Labrador coast and widely used. 1983 Gazetteer of Canada: Nfld 1 Akpiksai Bay; Akpiktok Island. 1985 Evening Telegram 6 July, p. 5 Travellers on the [Bonavista Bay] barrens report that good crops of blueberries, bakeapples, etc, can be expected this year.

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