The story
- Italian · borrowed frompizzella
- English todaypizzell
Borrowed from Italian pizzella. The final vowel is probably dropped either due to southern Italian influence (as Neapolitan often reduces final vowels to a schwa), or due to anglicized pronunciation of the plural form pizzelle (many English words ending in -elle do not pronounce the last e, e.g. belle, gazelle, mademoiselle).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.