essa-- as in ess'a bagel.. (ny corruption of the yiddish..eat a bagel..)
Interesting... essa also means "eat" in PA Dutch. Not to be confused with fressa, which refers to the way an animal eats.

Recursively interesting ... in yiddish, a fresser is one who is eating. (Or a is big eater. I'm not sure which, my reference book having been devoured by our fresser dog.)

Does PA Dutch trace back to German, as does much of yiddish?