Re: fingers

Well, I know that I think of it as a derivation from the English word
pink, but this could be a case of reanalysis. Ie English borrows it
from Dutch, and then it's reanalysed as pink + diminutive y instead of
as a unanalysable loan word.

> Then it would come from E "pink", the (skin) colour - little pink one?
> But all fingers of white people are equally pink, aren't they?
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> Ingmar
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