and its a YART, but what the heck,'Panch' (pronounced as 'punch') is Sanskrit for 'five', is related to the Latin root penta (5) and then gets the p turned into an F, e to an i, and the nt to a f or v... (all by various germanic cognates,) to give english five!

Penta itself lives on in Pentigon, and various other words that have a quality of 5.

Panca/penta was covered sometime in the not to distant past, about a year ago.. maybe a few months more or less.


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