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pink.

pinkie (little finger)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/pɪŋk/
  1. pinkie (little finger)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Of obscure origin. Sometimes compared to Etymology 2 and 3 below in the sense of "something small." Perhaps related to pin or otherwise borrowed from a substrate language with unshifted p-.

noun/pɪŋk/
  1. one-year-old calf, a bovine yearling

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Unknown.

noun/pɪŋk/
  1. a pink (historic coastal fishing boat with one mast, often landed on beaches)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch pinke, of unknown origin. Connections to Etymology 1 above ("pinkie") in the sense of "elongated object" remain purely hypothetical. Possibly connected with pink eye (literally “half-shut eye”), comparable to the semantics of French oeillet (literally “little eye”). Compare Proto-West Germanic *pinnā.

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