Klarinet Archive - Posting 000240.txt from 2005/09

From: Erik Tkal <bbtkal@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pinky again
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:39:46 -0400

Tony, the OED defines pinky (also pinkie) as "Small, diminutive, tiny",
derived from French(?). I didn't see any correlation in the etymology
to the number five.

Erik

Tony Pay wrote:

>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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