pleck

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*plakjō“spot, stain”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*plakkju
3. Middle Dutch · derived fromplecke
4. Middle English · inherited frompleck
5. English todaypleck

From Middle English pleck, plek, perhaps a variation of plack, or perhaps from Middle Dutch plecke, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). Cognate with West Frisian plak (“place, location, spot”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, place, patch”). More at patch.

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