Plunder
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