Etymograph

English

strucla

Strucla comes from Polish strucla ‘a jam or poppy seed roll’.

  1. Polishmodernstrucla1‘a jam or poppy seed roll’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1996strucla1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English strucla
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1996, Good Food Store, Holiday Baking: “Whether it's lefsa, strucla, challah or kugelhopf, it's all…”.

Lineage

  1. PolishmodernstruclaWiktionary, English strucla‘a jam or poppy seed roll’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1996struclaWiktionary, English strucla. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1996, Good Food Store, Holiday Baking: “Whether it's lefsa, strucla, challah or kugelhopf, it's all…”

Today it means

noun A Polish poppy seed bread.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “strucla”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Polish strucla / strucla