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vinger

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vinger, from Middle Dutch vinger, from Old Dutch finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfəŋ.ər/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

vinger (plural vingers)

  1. finger

Derived terms

Danish

Noun

vinger c

  1. indefinite plural of vinge

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vinger, from Old Dutch fingar, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

Noun

vinger m (plural vingers or vingeren, diminutive vingertje n)

  1. finger
    Synonym: (plural only) fikken
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: vinger
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: finggri
  • Negerhollands: vinger, fiṅgu, finger
  • ? Aukan: finga
  • ? Caribbean Hindustani: ungri
  • ? Sranan Tongo: finga

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vinger

  1. inflection of vingeren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch fingar, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

Noun

vinger m

  1. finger
  2. finger, digit (a unit of measure)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

vinger

  1. Alternative form of fynger

Middle High German

Etymology

    From Old High German fingar, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈviŋɡər/, /ˈfiŋɡər/

    Noun

    vinger m

    1. finger

    Declension

    Descendants

    References

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Noun

    vinger m

    1. indefinite plural of vinge

    Yola

    Etymology

    From Middle English fynger, from Old English finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vinger

    1. finger
      • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 53:
        Lethel vinger.
        Little finger.

    References

    • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75