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Noodle

2 stages from German to English.

Today it means a long, thin strip of pasta or dough
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Stage 1 of 2
Nudel
German · 1700s
"pasta strip"
the German word for pasta strips
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Stage 2 of 2
noodle
English · 1700s-1800s
"a strip of pasta dough"
adopted directly from German
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