Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening. · A small nail with a head and a sharp point. · A cylindrical piece of solid material, often of wood or metal, used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts. · The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pinnaz Proto-West Germanic *pinn Old English pinn Middle English pinne English pin From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle. No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).
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- Inherited-form mentionpinneenm
- Inherited-form mentionpinnang
- Inherited-form mention*pinnazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*bend-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionpinnl
- Cognate mentionpinnds
- Cognate mentionPinnde
- Cognate mentionPfonzerbar
- Cognate mentionpindda
- Cognate mentionpinnno
- Cognate mentionpinnesv
- Cognate mentionpinniis
- Cognate mentionpinnala
- Cognate mentionpennala
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