Finger names

How are fingers called in your language, where does it come from and what does it mean?

In French, all name derive from Latin:

1. Thumb is "pouce" from Latin "pollex", no idea what it means.
2. Index finger is "index" because it is used to "indicate" (point to sth).
3. Middle finger is "majeur" because it is the tallest finger of the hand.
4. Ring finger is "annulaire" because it is the one wearing the "anneau" (ring).
5. Little finger or "pinkie" is "auriculaire" because it can fit in the ear.

What about yours?

Other urls found in this thread:

etymonline.com/index.php?term=thumb
etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=index
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_finger#The_wedding_ring
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

thumb
index
middle
ring
little

What about toes?

1.degetul mare(big finger);
2.aratator(showing finger);
3.degetul mijlocul(middle finger);
4.inelar(ring finge)
5.degetul mic(little finger);

anime
anime
anime
anime
anime

Ngón cái
Ngón trỏ
Ngón giữa
Ngón áp út
Ngón út

Kleiner Finger - little finger
Ringfinger - ring finger
Mittelfinger - middle finger
Zeigefinger - "pointing finger" - index finger
Daumen - thumb

And what do each mean?

first toe
second toe
third toe
fourth toe
fifth toe

Big toe is also first toe, I imagine?

Thumb
Pointer
Rude finger
Ringo
Pinkie

Big toe
Second toe
Middle toe
Fourth toe
Pinkie toe

thumb - kciuk, the finger used for christening babies
index - palec wskazujący - pointing finger
middle - palec środkowy - middle finger
ring - palec serdeczny - cordial (warm, sincere) finger
pinkie - mały palec - little finger

1. Thumb - I don't know.
2. Index - I don't know.
3. Middle - because it is the middle one.
4. Ring - because this is the finger which wedding, engagement, and various other types of rings typically go on.
5. Pinky, pinkie, or little - because it's usually the smallest finger on one's hand. This name was most likely invented by whitey because of the whole "pinky" thing.

After doing a little bit of research, this is what I have found:
etymonline.com/index.php?term=thumb
thumb (n.)
>Old English þuma, from Proto-Germanic *thumon- (source also of Old Frisian thuma, Old Saxon, Old High German thumo, German Daumen, Dutch duim "thumb," Old Norse þumall "thumb of a glove"), literally "the stout or thick (finger)," from PIE *tum- "swell," from root *teue- (2) "to swell" (see thigh). For spelling with -b (attested from late 13c.), see limb.

>In some of the IE languages there is a single word for "thumb," which is called the "big finger," like NE big toe. Many of the single words are of similar semantic origin, based on the notion of "stout, thick." [Buck]

>Compare Greek megas daktylos "thumb," but Greek also had antikheir, literally "what is opposite the fingers." Italian pollice, French pouce are from Latin pollex, perhaps formed (on analogy of index) from pollere "to be strong."

From the same website:
etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=index
index (n.)
>late 14c., "the forefinger," from Latin index (genitive indicis) "one who points out, discloser, discoverer, informer; forefinger (because used in pointing); pointer, sign; title, inscription, list," literally "anything which points out," from indicare "to point out" (see indication). Related: Indexical.

>Obsolete in English in its original sense (index finger is recorded from 1768). Meaning "alphabetical list of a book's contents with directions where in the text to find them" is from late 16c., from Latin phrases such as Index Nominum "Index of Names."

>Meaning "object serving as a pointer on an instrument, hand of a clock or watch" is from 1590s. Scientific sense (refractive index, etc.) is from 1829, from notion of "an indicator." Economic sense (cost-of-living index, etc.) is from 1870, from the scientific usage.

>The Church sense of "forbidden books" is from index librorum prohibitorum, first published 1564 by authority of Pius IV. The Index Expurgatorius was the catalogue of books that Catholics were forbidden to read unless certain passages were deleted, first printed 1571.

And finally, the etymology of the variant for index finger "forefinger" is quite simple:

forefinger (n.)
>mid-15c., from fore- + finger (n.). So called because it is considered the first next to the thumb. A Middle English name for it was lickpot (late 14c.).

>1. Peukalo - thumb
>2. Etusormi - front finger
>3. Keskisormi - middle finger
>4. Nimetön - nameless
>5. Pikkusormi - little finger

Starting from the thumb:

Αντίχειρας: "the one that is opposite to the hand"
Δείkτης: "the one that shows", same meaning as index
Μέσος: "middle one"
Παράμεσος: "the one that is next to the middle one"
Μιkρός: "small one"

>mikros

mikrus is slang for manlet here
fucking greeks cucked the whole europe

>Μιkρός
axaxaxa just like my peepee ;_;

Interesting. The thumb enjoys a special status among the fingers, it seems.

>4. Nimetön - nameless
honhon

I thought yours was "the one that shows".

Pollice
Indice
Medio
Anulare
Mignolo

>not suomensotti
>not pikkurilli

Pollice
Indice
Medio
Anulare
Mignolo

Duim (Thumb)
Wijsvinger (pointing finger)
Middelvinger
Ringvinger
Pink

>1. Thumb is "бoльшoй", literally "big".
>2. Index finger is "index" because it is used to "indicate" (point to sth).
>3. Middle finger is "cpeдний" literally "middle".
>4. Ring finger is "бeзымянный", literally "nameless".
>5. Little finger is "мизинeц", doesn't mean anything literally, the word is derived from "the smallest".

. Index finger is "yкaзaтeльный" because it is used to point to sth.
fixed

Pulgar
Índice
Corazón
Anular
Meñique

>Corazón
That's interesting, because it is usually the ring finger that is symbolically associated with the heart (hence the wearing of the wedding ring on this finger). But it also make sense as it is at the "heart" of the other fingers.

>Sauce : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_finger#The_wedding_ring