müsli

See also: musli and Müsli

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Müsli.

Noun

müsli (uncountable)

1. Rare form of muesli.
   • 1988, James Scala, The High Blood Pressure Relief Diet, NAL Books, →ISBN, pages 225–226:

     Breakfast starts the day right. I have provided two cereal müsli recipes that should satisfy any gourmet. […] Scala’s Oatmeal Müsli / A breakfast of grains and fruit without milk follows in the European tradition of müsli.

   • 1988, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, volume 16, page 18, column 2:

     Cold Cereal: Choose dense cereals (as opposed to flaked and puffed types), such as granola, müsli, Grape-nuts and Wheat Chex; top with raisins, bananas, or other fruit.

   • 1993, Terri Wershler, Vancouver: The Ultimate Guide, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 38, column 2:

     Hidden in the back of a lavishly handsome health food store, Capers serves traditional breakfasts made from free-run eggs and nitrate-free bacon, along with yogurt, müsli and fruit.

   • 1994, Yvonne Granfeldt, Food Factors Affecting Metabolic Responses to Cereal Products, Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, Lund University, pages 13–15:

     Consequently, one way of producing a "lente" müsli seems to be rolling of raw (un-heated) cereal kernels. […] Rolled oats is a popular breakfast cereal in Sweden. Traditionally, it was cooked as a porridge, but nowadays it is increasingly eaten as müsli. In the literature, data regarding glucose and insulin responses to oat products are conflicting, both in the form of müsli (Rasmussen et.^[sic] al. 1989, Wolever et. al. 1990) and porridge (Holt et. al. 1992, Jenkins et. al. 1988a).

   • 1997, Mark Honan, Switzerland: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 60:

     Go into any supermarket in Italy and half the shelves will be taken up with a thousand different varieties of pasta. In Swiss supermarkets you find maybe a couple of müsli packets tucked away in the corner and that's it.

   • 2001, Scripta Medica, volume 74, page 380:

     The unit portions were defined for each of the five groups of the food pyramid. In the starch/bread group, which includes bread, cereals, rice and pasta, a unit portion was equivalent to a slice of bread (60 g), a roll or a scoop of cooked rice or pasta (125 g) or a small bowl of müsli.

   • 2003, International Food Marketing & Technology, volumes 17–19, Dr. Harnisch Verlags GmbH, page 8, column 3:

     With these characteristics and benefits, the natural fruit sweetener is well suited for application in all confectionery categories. It also works equally well with gum and jelly products, soft and hard caramels, ice cream, bakery, cereals and müsli bars.

   • 2003, Susanne Günthner, “Lexical-grammatical variation and development: The use of conjunctions as discourse markers in everyday spoken German”, in Regine Eckardt, Klaus von Heusinger, Christoph Schwarze, editors, Words in Time: Diachronic Semantics from Different Points of View (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, section C (The force of grammar), page 382:

     1Anna: warum kauft ihr denn keine größeren müslipäckchen. (-) / 2 weil (-) DIE reichen doch nirgends hin. / 1Anna: why don’t you buy bigger packages of müsli. / 2 because (-) these don’t get you anywhere. / […] The reading is something like “I’m asking why you don’t buy bigger packages of müsli, because the ones you have don’t get you anywhere”.

   • 2004, The Manufacturing Confectioner, volume 84, page 57, column 3:

     Müsli-Crunch: a white chocolate bar with a four-corn mix of müsli pieces.

   • 2005, Roderick Ford, “Miss Johnson”, in The Shoreline of Falling, Bradshaw Books, →ISBN, page 28:

     She was fond of müsli and grapes with croutons fried in bacon fat, and she drank her milk from an eggcup.

   • 2014, John R Ford, chapter 11, in Dark Shadows, [Lulu.com], →ISBN, pages 63–64:

     He had waited until he had thought she was slowing down, having made great inroads into several croissants, pains au chocolat, French bread, bacon and eggs, sausage sandwiches, müsli, fresh fruit and, now, Danish pastries.

   • 2014, Timur Vermes, translated by Jamie Bulloch, chapter XIX, in Look Who’s Back, London: MacLehose Press, Quercus, →ISBN:

     And in the mornings, as I partook of my müsli and orange juice with linseeds, I could palpably sense an acknowledgement of my past achievements in the looks people afforded me.

   • 2016, Thomas Strandberg, chapter 12, in The Lights of Hell, Lulu Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 39:

     A plate of scrambled eggs and a bowl of müsli stood in the puddle of spilled orange juice.

   • 2019, Jens-Otto Andersen, “[Our foods – more than nutrients] From folk medicine to secondary compounds”, in Vitality – from Soil to Stomach, Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 14, column 1:

     You are standing in the supermarket with a bag of müsli in your hand and you want to know its health value – how does this müsli contribute to your health?

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪslɪ]
• Homophone: mysli

Noun

müsli n

1. muesli

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Estonian

Noun

müsli (genitive müsli, partitive müslit)

1. muesli

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mysli

Etymology

From German Müsli (“muesli”).

Noun

müsli m (definite singular müslien)

1. muesli

Hypernyms

• frokostblanding

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Müsli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmus.li/, /ˈmis.li/, /ˈmjus.li/

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• Rhymes: -usli
• Syllabification: müs‧li
• Homophones: muesli, musli

Noun

müsli n (indeclinable)

1. Alternative spelling of musli

Further reading

• müsli in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• müsli in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Müsli.

Noun

müsli n (uncountable)

1. muesli

Declension

declension of müsli (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) müsli	müsliul
genitive/dative	(unui) müsli	müsliului
vocative	müsliule

Swedish

Etymology

From German Müsli (“muesli”).

Noun

müsli c (uncountable)

1. muesli

Declension

Declension of müsli
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	müsli	müslin	—	—
Genitive	müslis	müslins	—	—

See also

• frukostflingor

References

• müsli in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• müsli in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)