fingr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷrós. Compare Old English finger, Old Saxon fingar, Old High German fingar, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍂𐍃 (figgrs).

Noun

fingr m

finger

Descendants

Danish: finger
Faroese: fingur
Icelandic: fingur

Norwegian: finger (Bokmål), finger (Nynorsk)
Old Swedish: finger
- Swedish: finger

References

fingr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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