Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Yiddish ·1920s
Bagel
from beygl
- Meaning
- A boiled-then-baked ring of bread, from Ashkenazi Polish Jewish tradition.
- Source word
- beygl
- Route into English
- Polish-Jewish immigration to New York (1880–1920); the word stayed regional until the 1960s when industrial bakeries made the bagel a national food.
- Arrived
- 1920s
From Yiddish
Mass migration from Ashkenazi Eastern Europe to New York (1880–1920) funnelled Yiddish into American English, from where it diffused globally.
English borrows.
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