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Nudel.

a noodle, a string or lump of pasta

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈnuːdəl/[ˈnuːdl̩]
  1. a noodle, a string or lump of pasta

    feminine
  2. pasta

    feminine · in-plural
  3. certain other kinds of pastries

    feminine · in-compounds
  4. a person, usually female, who is funny and cheerful, especially when also having a pleasantly plump, buxom figure

    feminine · informal
Where this word comes from

Attested since 16th century, further origin unknown. Perhaps from a variant of Knödel, such as Silesian East Central German Knudel. The unusual loss of k- is apparently attested in West Flemish noedel (“dumpling”). If already Middle Dutch, such a dialectal form might have been brought to eastern Germany by Flemish settlers. (Standard Dutch noedel stems from the German.) An alternative theory derives it from Ladin menudli (“small piece of dough found in soup”), from Latin minutulus, diminutive of minūtus (“diminished, diminutive, lessened”).

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