Stollen: lumpy, dumpy, stumpy
Language Log 2024-12-22
Summary:
Yesterday we had a lot of fun exploring the derivation of Italian "Panettone: augmentative of the diminutive" and beyond. Another Yuletide cake I'm eating these days is German stollen, but its etymology is not so exciting: Middle High German stolle < Old High German stollo ("post, support"), documented since the 9th century, from the Indo-European […]