Bagel
wiktionary
Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug-(“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug(“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz(“ring”); compare obsolete English bee(“ring, metal ring, bracelet”), Middle English bege, beh, Old English bēag, bēah, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr; also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.
etymonline
bagel (n.)
"ring-shaped hard bread roll," 1912 (beigel), from Yiddish beygl, from Middle High German boug- "ring, bracelet," from Old High German boug "a ring," related to Old English beag "ring" (in poetry, an Anglo-Saxon lord was beaggifa "ring-giver"), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz, from PIE root *bheug- "to bend," with derivatives referring to curved objects.
