Timeline for Are Russian words пять (five), пясть (fist), пятка (heel) related? What about English "fist"?
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| Jan 26, 2022 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/1486307961819602946 | ||
| Dec 6, 2020 at 6:09 | comment | added | vectory | As wiktionary already mentions "full", consider further pan- "all", from Gk. pas, from *peh2-? Maybe assume a sense package, and cp. words for glove. I know I went wild once trying to derive shoe (or even hand!) from Handschuh "glove". Now cp. Ne-Pali panja "glove; claw, paw; (card games) five" versus pyjama from Persian "leg garments". | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 19:30 | comment | added | jlawler | See the chart, which lists only English cognates and descendants. There are lots more, like Punjab. | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Cairnarvon | Five being derived from fist or finger, while far from settled, is a lot less contentious than ten being derived from hand, much less the right hand specifically. | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 14:17 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 28, 2020 at 10:34 | history | asked | Anixx | CC BY-SA 4.0 |