English
Kaiser roll
Kaiser roll comes from English Kaiser ‘emperor’.
- English1500–presentKaiser‘emperor’
- Englishearliest quotation 1989Kaiser roll
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentKaiser‘emperor’
- Englishearliest quotation 1989Kaiser roll
Earliest quotation: 1989, Bill Watterson: “Did you see it?? It was the biggest bee…”
Made of the words Kaiser + roll
Latin Caesar
Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz ‘emperor (of Rome)’
Proto-West Germanic *kaisar ‘emperor’
Old High German keisar ‘emperor’
Middle English kayser ‘an emperor’
English Kaiser
Latin rota ‘wheel’
Latin rotula ‘a little wheel’
Medieval Latin rotulāre ‘to roll; to revolve’
Old French roller
Middle English rollen
English roll
Every English word from English Kaiser
Today it means
noun A typically crusty round bread roll supposedly invented in Vienna, made from flour, barm, malt, water, and salt, and whose characteristic feature is a five-spoked propeller- or pinwheel-like star on its obverse.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English Kaiser / Kaiser roll