Etymology

krumkake

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Today it means: A Norwegian cookie invented by emigrants to America, prepared as a rolled-up cone, sometimes with a filling. Full definition →

Norwegian krumkake
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The story

  1. Norwegian · borrowed fromkrumkake“curved cake”
  2. English todaykrumkake

Unadapted borrowing from Norwegian krumkake (“curved cake”). Compare Middle English crumcake, cramkake (“loaf of unleavened bread; a twisted or crumpled cake”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.