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Kreplach/krepl,קרעפּל
Before Yiddish became a common language among European Jews, around 1250, the language spoken by Jews in northern France was a form of Old French. The word krepish was first recorded in the 12th century. Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna who lived from 1180 to 1260 documents this saying, “Jews in the Slavic lands also made krepish with cheese” (Marks, 329). Krepish consisted of a small piece of meat wrapped in a pastry and then fried. This dish was somewhat similar to the knish that developed later in Eastern Europe. The name krepish comes from the old French word crespe, meaning curly or wrinkled. This word crespe is also the predecessor of the French word crepe, a thin French pancake, and is also related to the English word crisp, along with the German word krapfen, meaning fried (Marks, 329).
