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Yiddish
Etymology
From Middle High German brēzel, from Old High German brezitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus (“small cake”), from Latin bracchiātus (“have branches like arms”), from bracchium (“arm”) + -ātus. Cognate to German Brezel. See also פּוטער (puter) for the word-initial /b/ → /p/ shift.
Pronunciation
Noun
פּרעצל • (pretsl) m, plural פּרעצלען (pretslen)
- pretzel
- Synonym: בייגעלע (beygele)
References
- Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “pretzel”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN