Etymograph

English

Pigistan

Blend of pig + Pakistan.

A blend of pig + Pakistan

Middle English pigge ‘pig, piglet’

English pig

Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to be clean, pure’

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Urdu پَاک ‘clean, pure’

Classical Persian ـِسْتَان

Urdu ـِسْتان ‘-istan, -stan’

Urdu پاکستان

English Pakistan

The story

Influenced by pork being illegal in Pakistan.

Today it means

name Derogatory name for Pakistan: a country in South Asia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Pigistan