yogurt

This tasty dairy product, also spelled yoghurt or yoghourt, is “n. A custardlike tart-flavored food prepared from milk curdled from bacteria..., often sweetened or flavored” (AHD). The word comes to English from the Turkish yoğurt, from yoğur, “to knead.” It is interesting to me that the name yogurt has anything to do with kneading, since kneading is usually associated with bread. However, this etymological story makes sense since the yogurt mass is probably “squeeze[d or] press[ed]” in processing (AHD).