Where does “Parkins” come from?
Parkins is the plural of parkin, formed with the diminutive suffix -kin, which derives from Middle English -kin, Old English -cian, Old English cynn meaning "kin," ultimately from Proto-Germanic kunją and Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- meaning "to beget."
Ancestry of “Parkins”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Parkin | A traditional soft cake of Northern England, usually made with oatmeal and treacle |
| 2 | English | Peter | radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P |
| 3 | Middle English | Peter | Peter |
| 4 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 5 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 6 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 7 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 8 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 9 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 10 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |