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pretzel

English

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WOTD – 18 August 2007
 
A pretzel

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Etymology

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From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms.

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Noun

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pretzel (plural pretzels)

  1. (cooking) A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
  2. (by extension) Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.

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Verb

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pretzel (third-person singular simple present pretzels, present participle pretzelling or (US) pretzeling, simple past and past participle pretzelled or (US) pretzeled)

  1. (transitive, Canada, US, informal) To bend, twist, or contort.
    Synonyms: bend, twist, contort
    They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel.

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Noun

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pretzel m (plural pretzels)

  1. pretzel (toasted bread or cracker in the shape of a knot)

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Etymology

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Derived from English pretzel.

Noun

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pretzel

  1. pretzel

Swedish

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Noun

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pretzel c

  1. a pretzel
    Synonym: (informal) (salt)kringla

Declension

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Declension of pretzel 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pretzel pretzeln pretzels, pretzlar pretzlarna
Genitive pretzels pretzelns pretzels, pretzlars pretzlarnas

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