pretzel – English noun declension

English noun forms of pretzel

Noun: pretzel
Singularpretzel
Pluralpretzels

Sample Sentences

  • When I was young, the best Philadelphia could do in the way of combining music and eating—or principally drinking—was at the Mäennerchor Garden at Ninth and Green, where a pretzel might be had with a glass of beer, or a sherry cobbler [1914, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Our Philadelphia, Chapter 19:]
  • Outside, the little birds on the telegraph wires looked in at the moving picture and smiled at one another. Some even wept. Then they flew down into the street and simply raved over a stale pretzel, ten days dead. [1918, Gelett Burgess, Ain't Angie Awful!, Chapter 8:]
  • he drew himself up into a regular pretzel of a boy [1901, Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch/Chapter 6, Chapter 6:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mreǵʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-us
4. Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus
5. Proto-Hellenic *brəkʰús
6. Ancient Greek βρᾰχῠ́ς (brăkhŭ́s)
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yōsder.
8. Proto-Indo-European *-isō
9. Proto-Hellenic *-ihō
10. Ancient Greek -ῑ́ων (-ī́ōn)
11. Ancient Greek βρᾰχῑ́ων (brăkhī́ōn)bor.
12. Latin bracchium
13. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
15. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
16. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
17. Proto-Italic *-ātos
18. Latin -ātus
19. Latin brāchiātus
20. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
21. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
22. Proto-Italic *-elos
23. Latin -lus
24. Latin -ellus
25. Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellusbor.
26. Old High German brēzitella
27. Middle High German brēzel
28. German Brezel
29. German Pretzelbor.
30. English pretzel
31. From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms. See: Latin Nouns 'brāchium'.