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- Check "platte" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "platte" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.

how would you explain “Plate machen”
Thinking about something intensively, with worry implied. I think of it as “losing hair over it” with “Platte” as a colloquial (rare) term for “Glatze”.