Finger
/ˈfɪŋ.ɡɚ/noun
One of the five digits on a human hand, especially the four that are not the thumb.
Did you know?English finger is part of a very old Indo-European word family for hand-digits, and its ancient relatives can still be traced across Germanic and Indo-European languages.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*penkʷe
“five”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*fingraz
“finger”
Old English
Anglo-Saxon
finger
“finger; toe”
Middle English
English
finger
“finger”
Modern English
English
finger
“a finger of the hand”