a noodle, a string or lump of pasta · pasta · certain other kinds of pastries
çekim: çoğul Nudeln · tamlayan Nudeln
eş: Pasta, Teigware
köken: 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…
köken: Genericized trademark from the consumer brand Miojo, sold by Nissin Foods in Brazil, ultimately from Japanese 明星 (myōjō, “a bright star, Venus; an extraordinarily outstanding person”).
köken: From Bavarian nudl (“noodle”), of unknown origin. Suffixed with -i to resolve the word-final consonant cluster, compare cetli from Bavarian zettl or German Zettel (/ˈt͡sɛtl̩/) etc.