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Old Swedish
Etymology
Arguably from Old Norse *blettr (and cognate of Icelandic blettur). Arguably from Middle Low German plet (“patch”).
Noun
plætter
- stain, blot
1480, Läke- och Örte-Böcker, G. E. Klemming, published 1883, page 316:Tha ögonen äre rödh som blod heller haffwa flecker, Skal man siwda malyrth oc blanda hennes oss mz tz hwiitha aff eggit och quinna miölk, oc rosen vatn, oc göre ther aff smaa plaster aff liinklwta, oc leggia oppo ögonen, tz drager blodet oc pletterna bort,- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
References
- plätter in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:1: M-T