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Pingali
Pingali 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’
- EnglishtodayPingali
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’
- EnglishtodayPingali
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 A surname.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- / Pingali