köken: From Middle High German zēhe, from Old High German zēha, from Proto-West Germanic *taihā, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ (“toe”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”).
köken: From Middle Dutch têe, from Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-West Germanic *taihā, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. The modern form was originally a plural (retained in van top tot teen), which was reanalysed as a singular. Compare schoen where the same has happened, or raaf and ui which went the opposite way.
aile: drieteenmeeuw, drieteenstrandloper, grote teen, lange tenen, teengewricht, teennagel, teenschimmel, teenslipper, teensok, tenenkrommend
toe (digit of the foot) · ankle (tibio-tarsic joint)
çekim: çoğul artelhos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese artelho, from Vulgar Latin *articlus, a syncopated/contracted form of Latin articulus (digiti). Compare the borrowed doublets artigo and artículo. Compare Galician artello, Spanish artejo, Catalan artell, Occitan artelh, French orteil.
köken: First attested in the Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong eonhae (妙法蓮華經諺解 / 묘법연화경언해), 1463, as Middle Korean 밠〮가락 (Yale: pál-s-kàlàk). 발 (bal, “foot”) + -ㅅ- (-s-, genitive interfix; omitted from the spelling, but this causes the tense phonation of the following consonant) + 가락 (garak, “strand”).
digit; finger; toe · finger; toe (part of clothing that covers one finger or toe) · finger (movable, elongated part of a device resembling a finger)
çekim: çoğul palce · tamlayan palca
eş: parst, kciuk
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pōlo-der.? Proto-Slavic *pàlъ Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ikas Proto-Slavic *-ьcь Proto-Slavic *pàlьcь Old Polish palec Polish palec Inherited from Old Polish palec.
aile: palce lizać, palcem po wodzie pisany, sam jak palec, nie wytykając palcem, spod dużego palca, z palcem w nosie, duży palec, jedenasty palec, mały palec, palcówka
köken: From Proto-Finnic *varbas, possibly from *varpa (“twig”), which is also the origin of varpu. Cognates include Estonian varvas, Ingrian varvas, Karelian varvas/varvaš, Veps barbas, Votic varvõz and Livonian vārbaz.
finger · digit (informal unit of width based on the thickness of one finger, historically equal to 25.4 mm)
çekim: çoğul degete · tamlayan degetului
köken: Inherited from Latin digitus, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, point out, pronounce solemnly”). Compare Aromanian dzeadzit. Doublet of digit.
aile: arăta cu degetul, deget inelar, deget mare, degetar, degețel, juca pe degete, mișca un deget, număra pe degete, se ascunde după deget, se trage în degete
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a finger, toe · a digit, number · an inch (in ancient times, a 16th part of a Roman foot)
çekim: çoğul digitī · tamlayan digitī
köken: Traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *digitos, from Proto-Indo-European *deyǵ- (“to show, point out, pronounce solemnly”), variant of the root *deyḱ- that also gave Latin dīcō (“to say, speak talk”) and English toe; fingers were thus "pointers" or "indicators". De Vaan, however, is skeptical, as no other term exhibits a comparable change from *-ḱ- to a *-ǵ-. The "number" sense comes from the…