英语词汇pretzel的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pretzel. There is no proof that pretzels are twisted to repre- sent “the folded arms of praying children,” as is often claimed, and they certainly don’t take their name from the Latin pretiola, “little reward,” because they were given by monks to religiously faithful children. Why they are twisted no one really knows, and the word pretzel, first recorded here in 1824, in a reference to pretzels eaten by the Dutch, derives from the German word for “branch,” in reference to the branches of a tree that the “arms” of the pretzels resemble.

词汇	pretzel
词源	pretzel. There is no proof that pretzels are twisted to repre- sent “the folded arms of praying children,” as is often claimed, and they certainly don’t take their name from the Latin pretiola, “little reward,” because they were given by monks to religiously faithful children. Why they are twisted no one really knows, and the word pretzel, first recorded here in 1824, in a reference to pretzels eaten by the Dutch, derives from the German word for “branch,” in reference to the branches of a tree that the “arms” of the pretzels resemble.
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