Klarinet Archive - Posting 000239.txt from 2005/09

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pinky again
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:49:35 -0400

On 22 Sep, Roger Shilcock
<roger.shilcock@-----.uk> wrote:

> So what's the consensus view on this? Was "penki" borrowed into Yiddish?
> Roger S.

Dunno, Roger. (Perhaps you're the best placed person to find out:-)

It was enough for me that the probability was that -- by some route-- the
term 'pinky' derived from a word in some language for the number 5.

Tony
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