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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 121 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Now do one for who has a word for "glove" vs "hand shoe".

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

German Word for mittens is Fäustlinge, literally fistlings.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Okay but that's kinda adorable

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Byt then you also have Handschuhe (I bet I typed that wrong)

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Handschuhe ist korrekt. Perfekte Rechtschreibung. Gratuliere.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 92 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Germany not calling them "feet fingers" was unexpected.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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".

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 4 days ago (6 children)

German has "Finger" and "Zehen"

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[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Both "orteils" and "doigts de pied" are used in French, the former sounding less childish than the latter.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago (15 children)

The same language where ninety-two is "four twenties and a twelve"?

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just four twenty twelve, that's enough. We're not savages.

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[–] tino@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

in French, les orteils but also plenty of slang: les nougats, les arpions, les radis, les haricots...

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 days ago

Well we definitely have both, we do also say "doigts de pied".

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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] georgette@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you really telling me that cookie clicker was made by a french toe?

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

You can also use "doigts de pied" in French, so you can be whichever colour you like.

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[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 63 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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"

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sociocultural boundaries are almost entirely grounded in language. Nation states are almost entirely grounded in imagination.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hungarian here, we're in the "fingers of the feet" group!

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Huh. Us other Finno-Ugrics are on the other side of the divide. Varvas, varpaat. Toe, toes.

[–] msantossilva@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (14 children)

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.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Digits" would be the English equivalent of "dedos", and the words are indeed related.

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[–] Michal@programming.dev 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why is this a map? Some of these countries have multiple languages, like Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland, Wales, even Spain has Catalonian.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No one can say this isn't the place for it.

Perfect place. Where the rules are made up and upvotes don't matter!

[–] Finofilipino@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In catalán it's "dits del peu", so the same as in spanish. There is no equivalent to toe.

[–] not_me@piefed.social 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

No trolling of Wallonia please.

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[–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago

French supports both designation.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

False, italian has a word for toe that is separate from the fingers of the feet (alluce)

[–] 8dotpi@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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"

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] 8dotpi@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In certain Austroasiatic languages, your wrists and ankles are your hand-necks and foot-necks.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

In hungarian we have a similar thing but for your foot and hand, its leg-head and arm-head respectively.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

In Polish, "ręka" can mean both arm and hand and which one it is is context dependent

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 7 points 3 days ago

This unites the Germanic and Uralic languages in by far the most important cultural way.

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

hungary is the wrong colour too: "lábujj" lit. "footfinger". more confusingly, the middle is "lábfej", which is "foothead"

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Hungarian has a word for the middle toe and it is "foothead"?

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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So, Germanic and Uralic languages vs. Latin and Slavic languages.

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[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Hungary calls them foot fingers, should be red

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

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