Re: fingers

Is "pinky" American English? In that case it's likely to be derived from
Substandard colloquial Dutch "pinkie", Standard Dutch "pinkje", dim. of
"pink".

This "pink", would it mean something like "the fifth (finger)", from
IndoEuropean
*penkwe , *pinkwe or so = five ?

Ingmar

> Well, English has "pinky" which seems like it's
> related to Dutch "pink".
>
> ~ Elliott
>
> --- Ingmar Roerdinkholder
> <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
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