Where does “sink” come from?
sink (Mauritian Creole) comes from Mauritian Creole senk, from French cinq, from Middle French cinq, from Old French cinc, from Vulgar Latin cinque, from Latin quīnque, from Proto-Italic kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.
sink (Mauritian Creole): Alternative spelling of senk
Definitions
- Alternative spelling of senk
Ancestry of “sink”, step by step