Plunder

See also: plunder and plünder

German

Etymology

From Middle High German plunder (“household furniture, clothes, linen”). Cognate with Middle Low German plunde (“clothing”), Dutch plunderen (“to plunder”).[1]

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

Noun

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

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

Further reading
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