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Hallo Freunde, diese Frage hatte ich schon mal für Wiley Horne zu klären, hier die Ergebnisse meiner Recherche. Ich hab es damals auf Englisch geschrieben und war zu faul es eben zu übersetzen.

Viele Grüße, Christof

Hello Wiley,
interesting question. Etymology of wor of words is perhaps the oldest record of
mankind. As I looked up "Pin, pinne, finne" i found the morphem as an example for this.

1.) Preliteral histoy:

Words were builded from sounds ( e.g. "mum", "thunder", "cry")
Constitutive for pin is the vocal "i" the sharpest, and closest of them all, the labial-
explosive "P" and the negating "n". Whatever this word will mean it is dedicated to
something sharp or small. If it isa verb, it will happen actually and as noun it is
nothing you'll can rest your head on.

2. Hebrew

"Pinnah" is the "battlement", "towers", "cornerstone" (See Psalm 118, 22 !), even a
"duke" or "king".

Source: Wilhelm Gesenius: Hebräisches und Aramäisches Handwörterbuch"

Wether there is a link between Hebrew and a similar word in Latin, I do not know,
however there is the following word in Latin:

3. Latin

"pinna"
a) "Towers, pinnacle"
b) "arrow"
c) "fin" of a fish or whale

Source: Stowasser "Lateinisches Wörterbuch". This word is most probably the fundament
of "peen-hammer" "la panne" and "Finne/Pinne"

4. German
"Finne" or "Pinne".

The "f" is used in High German, wheras the "P" is preserved in the northern parts,
where the Anglo-Saxons came from.

a) Peak
c) "fin" of a fish or whale
b) The the small, conic part of a hammer-head. See also "Finnhammer" or "Pinnhammer"
c) Small nails, of wood or metal

Source: J. C. Adelung: "Grammatisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch" (1811)

So far to etymology.

Hallo,

hilfreich bei solchen Fragen ist: http://dict.leo.org/?lang=de

und die Übersetzung:

Mfg
Rainer