frankfurter
FRANK-fur-ter · noun
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Origin
Frankfurter comes directly from German Frankfurter, the demonym for someone or something from Frankfurt-am-Main.
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Journey
The word simply crossed from being the name for a resident or product of Frankfurt into the name of the sausage associated with that city.
Related words
It's built the same way English words like 'New Yorker' are — a place name plus a suffix meaning 'one from there.'