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*platjaną1reconstructed
  2. Old High Germanc. 750–1050*blazzen1reconstructed
  3. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350platzen1
  4. Yiddishmodernפּלאַצן2‘to split, crack, burst, explode’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2014platz2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Yiddish פּלאַצן
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English platz
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2014, Daniel Harris, Breaking the Law: why the rule on false starts in athletics : “There is a yiddish^([sic]) verb, to platz – roughly,…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*platjanąWiktionary, Yiddish פּלאַצןreconstructed
  2. Old High Germanc. 750–1050*blazzenWiktionary, Yiddish פּלאַצןreconstructed
  3. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350platzenWiktionary, Yiddish פּלאַצן
  4. YiddishmodernפּלאַצןWiktionary, English platz‘to split, crack, burst, explode’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2014platzWiktionary, English platz. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 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.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “platz”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Yiddish פּלאַצן. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *platjaną / platz

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