He missed on "cyanophycean" before Mahankali nailed "tokonoma" and "knaidel" for the victory.
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In the end, he snagged the title with the word knaidel, a German word that means a small mass of leavened dough.
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knaidel:
Borrowing from Yiddish ?????? ?(kneydl), from German Kn?del ?(“dumpling”).
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