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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

Noun

*fingr m[1]

finger

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fingr
Genitive	*fingras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fingr	fingrō, fingrōs
Accusative	*fingr	*fingrā
Genitive	*fingras	*fingrō
Dative	*fingrē	*fingrum
Instrumental	*fingru	*fingrum

Descendants

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
  - German: Finger
  - Luxembourgish: Fanger
  - Vilamovian: fyngier
  - Yiddish: פֿינגער (finger)

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48: “PWGmc *fingr”

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[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48: “PWGmc *fingr”