Re: fingers
| From: | Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 27, 2005, 15:31 |
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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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