Plunder
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German plunder (“household furniture, clothes, linen”). Cognate with Middle Low German plunde (“clothing”), Dutch plunderen (“to plunder”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Plunder m (mixed, genitive Plunders, plural Plundern)
- (uncountable) junk, rubbish
- Synonyms: Kram, Krempel, Trödel; see also Thesaurus:Zeug
- (countable) Danish pastry
- Synonyms: Plundergebäck, Teilchen
Declension[edit]
Declension of Plunder [masculine, mixed]
References[edit]
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Plunder”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Further reading[edit]
- “Plunder” in Duden online