Plinse
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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Like Yiddish בלינצע (blintse) (whence English blintz), from Upper Sorbian blinc, blins, plinc, plins (“thin pancake”), dissimilated from mlinc, from Proto-Slavic *mlinъ + *-ьcь, a suffix which this word often bears.
Pronunciation
Noun
Plinse f (genitive Plinse, plural Plinsen)
- (Saxony, Prussia) A thin, flat cake made from a dough of milk, eggs and either flour or potatoes.
Declension
Declension of Plinse [feminine]
Descendants
- → Old Prussian: plinxne
Further reading
- “Plinse” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (2005), “Plinse”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 8th edition, München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, page 1020
- Friedrich Kluge (2002) “Plinse”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 709
- “Plinse” in Duden online
- “Plinse” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon