Etymology

kringla

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Today it means: A slightly sweet Scandinavian cookie usually shaped as a figure eight. Full definition →

Swedish kringla
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The story

  1. Swedish · borrowed fromkringla“pretzel”
  2. English todaykringla

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.