The story
- Latin · derived fromsimila“finest quality wheat flour”
- Swedish · borrowed fromsemla
- English todaysemla
From Swedish semla, ultimately from Latin simila (“finest quality wheat flour”), through Old Swedish. Doublet of semola and semel; compare semolina.
Words from the same roots
Latinsimila all →
semolinasemolasimnel cake
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.