Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fingr

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *fingraz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós.

*fingr m^[1]

1. finger

• Old English: finger
  • Middle English: fynger, finger, vinger, fyngir, fyngur, fyngyr, fiyngir, ffynger
    • English: finger
      • Sranan Tongo: finga
    • Scots: finger
    • Yola: vinger
• Old Frisian: finger
  • Saterland Frisian: Finger
  • West Frisian: finger
• Old Saxon: fingar
  • Middle Low German: vinger
    • Low German: Finger
    • Plautdietsch: Finja
• Old Dutch: fingar
  • Middle Dutch: vinger
    • Dutch: vinger
      • Afrikaans: vinger
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: finggri
      • Negerhollands: vinger, fiṅgu, finger
      • →? Aukan: finga
      • →? Caribbean Hindustani: ungri
      • →? Sranan Tongo: finga
        • → Saramaccan: fingá
    • Limburgish: vinger, vènger
• Old High German: fingar
  • Middle High German: vinger
    • Alemannic German:
      • Swabian: Fengr
    • Bavarian: Finga
      • Cimbrian: vingar, bingar (Mezzaselva)
    • Central Franconian:
      • Hunsrik: Finger
      • Luxembourgish: Fanger
    • German: Finger
    • Vilamovian: fyngier
    • Yiddish: פֿינגער (finger)