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Re: fingers

From:Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...>
Date:Monday, June 27, 2005, 15:31
I'll look ik up in my Dutch etymologic dictionary - if I can find that...
Maybe it's in the English ED too?

But I still have the feeling *penkwe = five may has something to do with it

Ingmar


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bates" <chris.maths_student@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 5:10 PM
Subject: 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? >> >> Ingmar >> >

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