Etymograph

English

strudel

Strudel comes from German Strudel ‘whirlpool, strudel’, from Old High German strëdan ‘to burn, glow, hiss, whiz’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- ‘to stream, flow, run’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ser-‘to stream, flow, run’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*streþaną‘to burn, seethe, whirl’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050strëdan‘to burn, glow, hiss, whiz’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350strëden
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentStrudel‘whirlpool, strudel’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1956strudel

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ser-‘to stream, flow, run’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*streþaną‘to burn, seethe, whirl’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050strëdan‘to burn, glow, hiss, whiz’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350strëden
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentStrudel‘whirlpool, strudel’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1956strudel

Earliest quotation: 1956, Jean Z. Owen, Philadelphia: “Steffan grinned at him and pointed to the oven.…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ser- ‘to stream, flow, run’

service, series, sort, serve, hero, conservative, stream, desert, insert, reservoir, assertion, sermon, conservatism, exert, heresy, assertive, sorcery, sorcerer, concierge, observant, heretic, servitude, sark, conservator, servile, serf, sere, 34 more

Today it means

noun A pastry made from multiple thin layers of dough rolled up and filled with fruit, etc.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ser- / strudel

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