Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary

noun masculine a-stem bread loaf Of unclear origin. The word could have been borrowed from an unknown language or constructed from native material in late Proto-Germanic. It has been connected by Walde 1910 to the Ancient Greek words κλίβανος (klíbanos), κρίβανος (kríbanos, ‘baker's oven; pan with a lid for baking bread’) and κλιβανίτης (klibanítēs, ‘bread baked in a κλίβανος’), which according to Beekes is probably a borrowing from an unknown substrate language. The Germanic word could well have been borrowed from the same source. If so, it would be an early borrowing, since the word then apparently displays the effects of Grimm's Law. Compare Latvian klàips (‘loaf’), Lithuanian kliẽpas (‘loaf’). Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- is suggested as their origin, owing to the fact that the earliest flatbreads were disk-shaped. The Proto-Germanic word could have been borrowed from Balto-Slavic or vice versa.