kringla

Unadapted borrowing from Swedish kringla (“pretzel”) for the cookie's pretzel-like shape.

kringla (plural kringla)

1. A slightly sweet Scandinavian cookie usually shaped as a figure eight.

From Old Norse kringla

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰriŋla/
• Rhymes: -iŋla

kringla f (genitive singular kringlu, nominative plural kringlur)

1. disc, circle
2. pretzel
3. (athletics) discus

• hringur
• hvel

• “kringla” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

kringla (present tense kringlar, past tense kringla, past participle kringla, passive infinitive kringlast, present participle kringlande, imperative kringla/kringl)

1. alternative form of kringle

kringla f (definite singular kringla, indefinite plural kringler or kringlor, definite plural kringlene or kringlone)

1. definite singular of kringle
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of kringle

• klaring, klingra, krangli, larking, rakling

From Proto-Germanic *kringaz, from Proto-Indo-European *grenǵʰ- (“to turn”).

kringla f

1. disk, circle, orb

• kringlóttr (“round, circular”)
• kringluskurðr (“tonsure”)
• kringlusótt (“the staggers (in sheep)”)
• kringr (“easy”)
• kringja (“encircle, surround”)

From Old Norse kringla

kringla c

1. (cooking) a kringle (type of pastry, Nordic variety of pretzel)
2. (cooking, informal, by extension) a pretzel

   Synonym: pretzel

3. a pretzel (something having a pretzel-like shape)

• kringla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kringla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kringla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)