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plagg

/plakː/

Old Norse word for a garment or cloth

From O.Norse, from Proto-Germanic plagg (garment).

noun
plagg
Proto-Germanic
Verified
*plaggą
reconstructed
Reconstructed form; the supplied data glosses it as “key,” though the later Old Norse form is associated with clothing.

from Old Norse plagg

Old Norse
Verified
plagg
A garment, piece of clothing, or cloth; the direct source of the modern form.

from Old Norse plagg

Modern English
plagg

Imagine an Old Norse speaker pointing at a cloak, tunic, or scrap of fabric and calling it a plagg. The word’s trail stops in the supplied evidence at Proto-Germanic *plaggą, so its deeper ancestry is uncertain rather than something to decorate with an invented Indo-European root. In the twenty-first century, however, Plagg acquired a second life as the cheese-loving black cat-like kwami in the French animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, first released in 2015. His command—“Plagg, Claws Out!”—turns an ancient-sounding clothing word into a superhero transformation cue. Remember it as a linguistic costume change: plagg began as something you wear and became a character who helps someone become a cat-themed hero.

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