pink.
pinkie (little finger)
Meaning & usage
pinkie (little finger)
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-.
one-year-old calf, a bovine yearling
Where this word comes from
Unknown.
a pink (historic coastal fishing boat with one mast, often landed on beaches)
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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