Old English · noun
pinca
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- weak
- IPA
- /ˈpin.kɑ/[ˈpiŋ.kɑ]
- Syllables
- ˈpin · kɑ (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- peak
Meaning
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peak
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point
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *pinkō, from Proto-Germanic *pinkô, a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *pīkô, *pīkaz (“peak, summit, point”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian pink (“summit, peak”), Dutch pink (“little finger, pinkie”), German Low German Pink (“penis”). Alternatively, from a suffixed variant of Proto-Germanic *pinnaz (“pin”).
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