Where does “pinkka” come from?

pinkka (Finnish) comes from Middle English binke, from Middle English benk, from Old English benċ, from Proto-West Germanic banki, from Proto-Germanic bankiz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeg- — to break.

pinkka (Finnish): stack, (organized or semi-organized) pile

Definitions

  1. stack, (organized or semi-organized) pile

Ancestry of “pinkka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishbinke—
2Middle Englishbenk—
3Old Englishbenċbench
4Proto-West Germanicbankibench
5Proto-Germanicbankiza raised surface; bulge; hillock; slope; bench
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeg-to break

Words derived from “pinkka”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeg- →