pinca

See also: pinça

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiŋkɑ/

Noun

pinca m (nominative plural pincan)

  1. peak
  2. point

Inflection

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