kringla

Unadapted borrowing from Swedish kringla (“pretzel”) for the cookie's pretzel-like shape.

kringla (plural kringla)

1. A slightly sweet Scandinavian cookie usually shaped as a figure eight.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰriŋla/
• Rhymes: -iŋla

kringla f (genitive singular kringlu, nominative plural kringlur)

1. disc, circle
2. pretzel

• hringur
• hvel

kringla (present tense kringlar, past tense kringla, past participle kringla, passive infinitive kringlast, present participle kringlande, imperative kringla/kringl)

1. alternative form of kringle

kringla f (definite singular kringla, indefinite plural kringler or kringlor, definite plural kringlene or kringlone)

1. definite singular of kringle
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of kringle

• klaring, klingra, krangli, larking, rakling

From Proto-Germanic *kringaz from Proto-Indo-European *grenǵʰ- (“to turn”).

kringla f

1. disk, circle, orb

• kringlóttr (“round, circular”)
• kringluskurðr (“tonsure”)
• kringlusótt (“the staggers (in sheep)”)
• kringr (“easy”)
• kringja (“encircle, surround”)

kringla c

1. (cooking) a kringle (type of pastry, Nordic variety of pretzel)
2. (cooking, informal, by extension) a pretzel

   Synonym: pretzel

3. a pretzel (something having a pretzel-like shape)

• kringla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kringla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kringla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)