See also: plunder and plünder

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈplʊndɐ/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Plun‧der

Noun edit

Plunder m (mixed, genitive Plunders, plural Plundern)

  1. (uncountable) junk, rubbish
    Synonyms: Kram, Krempel, Trödel; see also Thesaurus:Zeug
  2. (countable) Danish pastry
    Synonyms: Plundergebäck, Teilchen

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Plunder”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading edit