Comments on: Language Fingers

By: Kate Lo

Kate Lo — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:09:58 +0000

Thanks and appreciate your prompt reply Thomas!

By: thomas

thomas — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:12:34 +0000

@Kate Lo: The big one is called the “big toe”. The little one is called the “pinky” or “little toe”. I don’t think we have names for the other 3.

By: Kate Lo

Kate Lo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:15:01 +0000

Is Abalone pronounced as [a.ba.lone] or [a.ba.loni]? thanks a million

By: Kate Lo

Kate Lo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:12:10 +0000

Can somebody tell me how to call the toes in English please?

By: Yunus

Yunus — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:36:21 +0000

Hi, I was seaching finger names in latin and in english, look what I have found! Vauv..
In Turkish language (Türkçe’de):
1. Başparmak – main/head finger
2. İşaret parmağı – pointing finger
3. Orta parmak – middle finger
4. Yüzük parmağı – finger for ring
5. Serçe parmak – sparrow finger (I think there is a relation of “being little”, as the sparrow is relatively a little bird)

Nice to participate to this blog…

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:17:18 +0000

Portuguese:
1. polegar
2. indicador
3. médio
4. anelar
5. dedinho

By: OneHourTranslation

OneHourTranslation — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:18:56 +0000

The Hebrew words are:
1.Thumb – Bo’hen
2.Index Finger or Pointer Finger – Ez’ba
Fingers in Hebrew are Ez’ba’ot
3.Middle Finger – A’ma
4.Ring Finger – Kmi’za
5.Pinky – Zeret

By: Jonathan Mahoney

Jonathan Mahoney — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:43:12 +0000

I love this post. Thanks! :-)

By: Eline

Eline — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:40:33 +0000

In Finnish the fingers are

1)peukalo (thumb)
2)etusormi (index finger), “front/fore finger”
3)keskisormi (middle finger), means same in Finnish too
4)nimetön (ring finger), “unnamed”, the left ring finger is occasionally called ‘kultarilli’. Kulta means gold, but I don’t really know what exactly does ‘rilli’ mean
5)pikkusormi(pinky) “little finger” although usually it’s pikkurilli

Usually only the big toe is named and it’s isovarvas (big toe). Another common name for it is pottuvarvas “potato toe”.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:18:13 +0000

the Norwegian words for the different fingers are very alike to the English ones:

1) tommel(finger) (thumb)
2) pekefinger (index finger) – “pointing finger”
3) langfinger (middle finger) – “long finger”
4) ringfinger (ring fing)
5) lillefinger (pinky/little finger)

I’m also studying French, so I can list those as well:

1) pouce (thumb)
2) index (index finger)
3) majeur/médius (middle)
4) annulaire (ring finger)
5) auriculaire (little finger)