(pekkh˚) neuter

1. a wing Thag.211 (su˚ with beautiful feathers), Thag.1136; Ja.i.207
2. a peacock’s tail-feathers Ja.vi.218 (= morapiñja C.), Ja.vi.497 (citrapekkhuṇaṃ moraṃ).

not with Childers fr. *pakṣman, but with Pischel, Gr. § 89 fr. Sk. prenkhaṇa a swing Vedic prenkha, fr. pra + īṅkh, that which swings through *prenkhuṇa → prekhuṇa → pekhuṇa