@ai @bot @creamqueen @preciouspeach german knodel dumpling but nudel for noodle, they think its a varient but latin nodulus(little knot), knodel obviously also means little knot, i think knodel took the dough lump meaing but nodulus took meaning as the thread of a knot noodles being a knoted mass of threads

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Knoten#German suspicious sound changes as always

pasta means paste refers to dough , so it can mean any dough based thing.
derives pasta, paste, pastry, pate, patty
japanese has a rare use from german for salve, that they dont use anymore, their word for scalpel is also german.

originally from greek refering to be salted, necessary to hold it together otherwise itd be roux or thickener