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According to:Dictionary.com The word 'Bagel' comes from (1919), from Yiddish beygl, from M.H.G. boug- "ring, bracelet," from O.H.G. boug, related to biogan "to bend" and O.E. beag "ring" (in poetry, an Anglo-Saxon lord was beaggifa "ring-giver"). The variety of bagel with onion flakes sprinkled on it is a bialy, short for Bialystok, city in Poland.
The word 'bagel' has been used in English since 1919; it came from the Yiddish beygl', from the German prefix 'boug-', meaning a ring-shape, which originated with Old High German 'boug' - a ring.
The term is related to the Old English word for ring: 'beag'. The original root for these words is an Indo-European base, '-bheug-', meaning (to) bend.
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What is the French word for bagel?
the french word for bagel is bagel because it stays the same.petit pain en couronne
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I through the old bagel in the trash because it was growing mold on it.
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