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