plag
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Shortening.
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plag
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plag
- imperative of plage
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From Middle Dutch plagge (“cloth, rag; sod”). Of uncertain ultimate origin: perhaps a pre-Germanic (but Indo-European) substrate in which the p- has not undergone Grimm's law; compare Latvian plēst (“to tear off”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *flahaną (“to skin”).[1][2] Related to Swedish plagg.
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plag f (plural plaggen, diminutive plagje n)
- A cut-out sod, an excavated flat piece of top soil grown with grasses or heath; in the past used as fuel or roof covering.
- A flat, excavated piece of peat.
- (archaic) A cloth, a rag.
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- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “plag”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- ^ J. de Vries (1971), Nederlands Etymologisch Woordenboek, Leiden
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plag
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plag
- imperative of plage
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plag