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Pla  ; allied to the   to piss,  pisser ( pisciare), The origin of this now widely diffused term cannot be easily determined. ,, ‘to plague,’ only, intensive form of.  ,, ‘patch, piece,’ from placke, , ‘spot, place, district’;   plak, ‘spot, blot,’   platch (variant of patch). From these words, the origin of which is obscure (they can scarcely have originated in  plaga), are derived  plaque, placard, &c. Perhaps, ‘to patch,’ which has probably lost a guttural before the tz, is also connected with these cognates.   ,, ‘plague, calamity,’ from plâge,  plâga, , ‘divine punishment’; adopted on the introduction of Christianity during the  period  from  plâga, ‘blow, thrust.’ From the same source the  cognates,  piaga,  plaie, ‘wound’ ( plague), are derived.   ,, ‘plain, plan, project,’ from plân,  and , ‘open space, plain’; from the   plan.   ,, ‘plank, board,’ from planke, blanke, , ‘thick board, plank, fortification’; corresponding to  and  plank; borrowed in the  period from the   and  planca;   planche,   pianca.  ,, only, an onomatopoetic form of a lost stem, blab, which is also indicated by the   blępzen,  blabbiȥôn, ‘to blab, babble’; allied to  (dial) and  blaffen, ‘to bark, yelp,’  plapen,  to blab.  ,, from the  blerren, blêren, ‘to cry, bleat’; an imitation of sound like  blaren, ‘to bleat,’ and  to blare.  ,, ‘flat, level, dull, downright’; in , only blatefuoȥ and platehuof, ‘flat foot, sole of the foot,’ are recorded. It is most closely connected with  plat, ‘plat,’ which, like   plat-footed (i.e. flat-footed), is derived from,  plat,  piatto. Their origin is ascribed to πλατύς. To this ' ( pletten), ‘to flatten, iron (clothes),’ is allied, as well as ',, ‘flat, dish’ ( blate, plate, signify only ‘covering for the breast, baldness’), formed from plat, ‘flat,’  plat,  plate.  ,, ‘plaice,’ formed from the   pladijs (platdijs), which is based on  platessa;   plaice.    (1.),, ‘place, row, seat, situation,’ from platz, , ‘open space, place’; formed, like  plaats, from the  cognates,  piazza,  and  place, which are derived from  platē̆a ( πλατεῖα), ‘street.’ The word seems to have been borrowed towards the end of the 13th.

 (2.),, ‘pancake, fritter’; only in  platzbęcke, ‘pastry cook’; allied to , or from  placek, ‘flat cake’?. The word is also current in.  ,, ‘to crash, burst,’ from platzen, blatzen, ‘to fall with a noise, strike.’ This word and blesten, ‘to splash,’ are derived from an  stem, blad. and, plassen, ‘to plash’ (plasregen,  to ), are intensive forms of. ,, ‘to chatter, chat,’ from late plûdern, a variant of blâderen, blôdern, ‘to rustle, roar’; a recent form in imitation of sound, like  blaterare, ‘to babble’  ,, ‘coiled fritter or pancake’; only, an East  word of  origin;   blin, blince, ‘flat, round cake.’ <section end="Plinze" /> <section begin="plötzlich" /> ,, ‘suddenly,’ from the late  plozlich (also earlier  plotz merely); allied to *plotz, ‘sudden blow.’ In  the  is quite unknown. <section end="plötzlich" /> <section begin="Pluderhose" /> ,, ‘wide breeches,’ first occurs in early ; origin uncertain. <section end="Pluderhose" /> ',, ‘plump, unwieldy, coarse,’ only, from  and  plomp, ‘thick, coarse, blunt’ hence in Swiss pflumpfig, with the  permutation); from  the word seems to have passed into  and  as plump. The term plump was  an imitation of sound. <section begin="Plunder" /> ', , ‘trash, lumber, plunder,’ from late  plunder, blunder, , ‘household furniture, clothes, linen,’ which is probably a  loan-word ( plunde, ‘clothing’). Hence ', ‘to plunder,’  ‘to take away the household furniture’ (also  plunderen, ‘to plunder’). <section end="Plunder" /> <section begin="Plüsch" /> ', , ‘plush,’  only, formed from tho   peluche ( peluzzo). <section end="Plüsch" /> <section begin="Pöbel" /> , , ‘populace, rabble,’ formed <section end="Pöbel" />