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Pinterest comes from English save ‘pin’.
- English1500–presentsave‘pin’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012Pinterest
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- English1500–presentsave‘pin’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012Pinterest
Earliest quotation: 2012, Carly B. Schrider, Tru(4)ia magazine collect ideas: “She allows users to repin her pictures on their…”
Proto-Indo-European *bend- ‘protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge’
Proto-Germanic *pinnaz
Proto-West Germanic *pinn ‘pin, nail’
Old English pinn ‘pin, peg, bolt’
Middle English pinne
English pin
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- ‘to be’
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Latin intersum ‘to be between; to concern’
Medieval Latin intersum ‘to concern’
Old French interesse
Middle English interest
English interest
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noun An account on Pinterest.
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