Meaning

noun any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)

noun the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure

noun one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb

originPIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Cognate with West Frisian finger, German and Low German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish finger, Faroese and Icelandic fingur; see…

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