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Pingala
Pingala comes from Sanskrit पिङ्गल ‘reddish-brown, tawny, yellow, gold-coloured’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- ‘to mark, paint’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peyḱ-‘to mark, paint’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*peyǵ- ~ *pi-n-ǵ-reconstructedvariant of *peyḱ-
- Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*pingalás ~ pinȷ́arás‘tawny, reddish’reconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEपिङ्गलpiṅgala‘reddish-brown, tawny, yellow, gold-coloured’
- EnglishtodayPingala
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peyḱ-‘to mark, paint’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*peyǵ- ~ *pi-n-ǵ-reconstructedvariant of *peyḱ-
- Proto-Indo-Aryanprehistoric (reconstructed)*pingalás ~ pinȷ́arás‘tawny, reddish’reconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEपिङ्गलpiṅgala‘reddish-brown, tawny, yellow, gold-coloured’
- EnglishtodayPingala
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- ‘to mark, paint’
picture, fish, file, paint, feud, depiction, depict, pigment, pint, pictorial, pimento, piscina, 26 more
Today it means
name One of the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine, the energies or prana of the physical body, are said to flow.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- / Pingala