Etymograph

English

platz

Platz comes from Yiddish פּלאַצן ‘to split, crack, burst, explode’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *platjaną.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*platjanąreconstructed
  2. Old High Germanc. 750–1050*blazzenreconstructed
  3. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350platzen
  4. Yiddishmodernפּלאַצן‘to split, crack, burst, explode’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2014platz

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*platjanąreconstructed
  2. Old High Germanc. 750–1050*blazzenreconstructed
  3. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350platzen
  4. Yiddishmodernפּלאַצן‘to split, crack, burst, explode’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2014platz

Earliest quotation: 2014, Daniel Harris, Breaking the Law: why the rule on false starts in athletics : “There is a yiddish^([sic]) verb, to platz – roughly,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *platjaną

platt, 1 more

Another origin of platz

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπλατεῖα
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplatēa
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400place
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350plaz
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentPlatz‘square, plaza, piazza’
  6. Englishtodayplatz

Today it means

verb To become aggravated.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *platjaną / platz

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