Etymology

Pimsleur

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French Pimsleur ← German Pinsler
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The story

  1. German · derived fromPinsler
  2. French · borrowed fromPimsleur
  3. English todayPimsleur

Borrowed from French Pimsleur, a Jewish surname, perhaps a variant of German Pinsler, ultimately from Pinsel (“paintbrush”) + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.