Re: fingers

Hi Julia & others.

In Dutch we use the following names:

vinger(s) = finger(s)
teen, pl tenen = toe(s)

duim = thumb
wijsvinger
middelvinger
ringvinger
pink

For toes, only : grote teen & kleine teen.

So, the Dutch names are quite similar to the German ones, except for
<pink> in stead of *kleine vinger. I think all other Germanic languages
have the equivalent of "little finger".
btw <wijsvinger> means the same as Zeigefinger, namely pointing finger.

Yours
Ingmar



> > On 6/24/05, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> [snip snip]
>
>> German has special *compound* words for the individual fingers.  Sure
>> you don't *need* names for them.  German uses (number in piano
>> enumeration):
>>         fingers         toes
>> generic: Finger          Zeh
>> 1:       Daumen          großer Zeh / großer Onkel (may be child
>> language)
>> 2:       Zeigefinger     -    (by analogy, 'Zeigezeh', but only as a
>> joke)
>> 3:       Mittelfinger    mittlerer Zeh
>> 4:       Ringfinger      -
>> 5:       kleiner Finger  kleiner Zeh
> >
> Swedish
> tumme ("thumb")
> pekfinger ("pointing finger")
> långfinger ("long finger")
> ringfinger ("ring finger")
> lillfinger ("little finger")

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