Plinse

German

Alternative forms

• Plinze, Plinz, Plins, Flinze, Flinse, Blinse, Blinze, Blinsn

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈplɪnzə]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -ɪnzə

Noun

Plinse f (genitive Plinse, plural Plinsen)

1. (Saxony, Prussia) A thin, flat cake made from a dough of milk, eggs and either flour or potatoes.

Declension

Declension of Plinse [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Plinse	die	Plinsen
genitive	einer	der	Plinse	der	Plinsen
dative	einer	der	Plinse	den	Plinsen
accusative	eine	die	Plinse	die	Plinsen

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
• Kluge, Friedrich (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