Knäckebrot

Concepts

crispbread

crisp bread

Synonyms

Gewohnheiten

Gehen

Translations

knäckebröd

gevrek ekmek

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈknɛkəbʁoːt/

Etymology

Partial calque of Swedish knäckebröd. The first component is unaltered from Swedish knäcka (“to crack, snap”). German-speakers commonly analyse it as knacken + Brot, which is ultimately both semantically and etymologically correct.