bagel

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰewgʰ-
2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰowgʰ-o-s
3. Proto-Germanic*baugaz
4. Proto-West Germanic*baug
5. Old High Germanboug
6. Middle High Germanbouc
7. Yiddishבייגל (beygl)
8. English todaybagel

Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”). Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare Austrian German Beugel and dialectal Beigel. See also beag.

Words from the same roots