Now do one for who has a word for "glove" vs "hand shoe".
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German Word for mittens is Fäustlinge, literally fistlings.
Okay but that's kinda adorable
Byt then you also have Handschuhe (I bet I typed that wrong)
Handschuhe ist korrekt. Perfekte Rechtschreibung. Gratuliere.
Danke. Ich hatte Deutsch für viele Jahren studiert aber ich habe es nicht für sieben Jahren spricht.
The grammar I think I could still do decently, just a lot of the words have escaped from my mind.
Germany not calling them "feet fingers" was unexpected.
I'm wondering if they got France and Germany mixed up. I don't remember all the French I was taught growing up, but it didn't sound right. So I googled it and got "droigts" and "orteils" for "fingers" and "toes".
Both "orteils" and "doigts de pied" are used in French, the former sounding less childish than the latter.
in French, les orteils but also plenty of slang: les nougats, les arpions, les radis, les haricots...
Well we definitely have both, we do also say "doigts de pied".
So the Flemish part of Belgium has "tenen", which is not toefinger. The french have "orteils", which is also not fingers of the foot( finger is doigt ).
So the map is at least wrong for those two countries.
Are you really telling me that cookie clicker was made by a french toe?
You can also use "doigts de pied" in French, so you can be whichever colour you like.
Language maps shouldn't be country maps, as language boundaries rarely overlap country borders. And it's also wrong, in Hungarian toe is "lábujj" literally means "footfinger"
Sociocultural boundaries are almost entirely grounded in language. Nation states are almost entirely grounded in imagination.
Hungarian here, we're in the "fingers of the feet" group!
Huh. Us other Finno-Ugrics are on the other side of the divide. Varvas, varpaat. Toe, toes.
Nope. In portuguese we do not call the toes "fingers of the feet". In fact we do not have a word for fingers. Or toes.
What we have instead is a word for those little appendages that one can find at the end of one's arms or legs. We call them "dedos". Most of the time we do not feel the need to specify if we are talking about fingers or toes. Context is usually enough to distinguish between the two. But when do have to be specific, we call the fingers "dedos of the hands" and the toes "dedos of the feet".
Now, that may seem weird to some, but to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.
"Digits" would be the English equivalent of "dedos", and the words are indeed related.
Why is this a map? Some of these countries have multiple languages, like Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland, Wales, even Spain has Catalonian.
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In catalán it's "dits del peu", so the same as in spanish. There is no equivalent to toe.
French supports both designation.
False, italian has a word for toe that is separate from the fingers of the feet (alluce)
That is specifically the name for the big toe though, and while there are names for the various other toes (they're quite uncommon, I don't remember them), they're not generic like "toe"
No, only alluce is a real word. The other names seems to be made up just to make a funny story.
Source: https://accademiadellacrusca.it/it/consulenza/i-nomi-delle-dita-dei-piedi/1119
Interesting read, thanks! I'd be curious to see if in 100 years they will become common enough to be considered "real words", or if they will disappear, who knows
In certain Austroasiatic languages, your wrists and ankles are your hand-necks and foot-necks.
In hungarian we have a similar thing but for your foot and hand, its leg-head and arm-head respectively.
In Polish, "ręka" can mean both arm and hand and which one it is is context dependent
Kinda same in Slovenian. You don't shake hands, you shake arms. Anything you do with your hands is done with your arms. The word for hand is not used that often.
This unites the Germanic and Uralic languages in by far the most important cultural way.
hungary is the wrong colour too: "lábujj" lit. "footfinger". more confusingly, the middle is "lábfej", which is "foothead"
I don't know much about it, but I suspect this is not far off from being just a map of the 'Germanic" language family.
Hungary calls them foot fingers, should be red
i always use this as an example of how deeply the languages we use shape how we understand the world
even the answer to the question "how many fingers do you have?" changes depending on the language, and that's a physical fact that seems to not have any degree of subjectivity to it