Fall Season 2024

[KrayZ33]

However, I have a big disdain against the term "Brötchen", because it's just a cutification of the word "Brot" which is "bread" in German. And there's no need to use a cutified word when we have proper words for distinct things. We don't say "Autochen" to small cars, either.

That's how language works though.
And we use it with a million other words.
The fact that regions have different words für the small version is already showing that Brötchen is the better word, because everyone knows what Brot is because Brot on the other hand is used everywhere, even in Austria and Switzerland.

Dreierbrotchen, Hutzel, Kipfl, Laabla, Laib, Polltaube, Rundstück, Schrippe, Schuster, Weck, Wecke, Wecken, Zeile, Zeilensemmel

vs

Brötchen which means small bread. G_G.
It's super efficient too:

1 Brötchen
5 Brötchen
einmal zwei halbe Hahn.