Köttel

From Middle Low German kötel. Also a Low and Central Franconian word. Cognate with Dutch keutel. Unrelated to German Kot (“feces”); instead, probably derived from the noun at hand in Dutch koot (“little bone”), thus originally “something hard”. Compare German Köte (“the heelbone of a horse; fetlock”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkœtəl/

Köttel m (genitive Köttels, plural Köttel)

1. (regional) a small piece of hard (chiefly animal) feces

• The word is now well attestable in edited prose, but may not be familiar to all speakers outside of northern and western Germany.

• Hasenköttel
• Mäuseköttel