Etymology

schnitzel

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Today it means: A dish consisting of fried veal cutlet. Full definition →

German Schnitzel
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromSchnitzel“cutlet”
  2. English todayschnitzel

Unadapted borrowing from German Schnitzel (“cutlet”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.