Etymology

bialy

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Today it means: A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle. Full definition →

Yiddish ביאַלי (byali) ← Polish Białystok ← Old Polish toczyć
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  2. Proto-Slavic*bě̃lъ
  3. Old Polishbiały
  4. Polishbiały
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  7. Proto-Balto-Slavic*iź
  8. Proto-Slavic*jьz
  9. Proto-Slavic*jьz-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*sm̥-
  12. Proto-Balto-Slavic*san?
  13. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  14. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm?
  15. Proto-Slavic*sъ(n)
  16. Old Polishz-
  17. Old Polishs-
  18. Polishs-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*tekʷ-
  20. Proto-Indo-European*tokʷ-éye-ti
  21. Proto-Balto-Slavic*takeitei
  22. Proto-Slavic*točiti
  23. Old Polishtoczyć
  24. Polishtoczyć
  25. Polishstoczyćdeverb.
  26. Polishstok
  27. PolishBiałystok
  28. Yiddishביאַלי (byali)
  29. English todaybialy

From Yiddish ביאַלי (byali), from the Polish name of the city of Białystok.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.