Where does “unfingered” come from?

unfingered (English) comes from English fingered, from English finger, from German Finger, from Middle High German vinger, from Old High German fingar, from Proto-West Germanic fingr, from Proto-Germanic fingraz, from Proto-Indo-European penkʷrós.

unfingered (English): Not fingered

Definitions

  1. Not fingered

Ancestry of “unfingered”, step by step

unfingered traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English fingered

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishfingeredsimple past tense and past participle of finger;...
2EnglishfingerA slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other animals
3GermanFingerfinger
4Middle High Germanvingerfinger
5Old High Germanfingarfinger
6Proto-West Germanicfingrfinger
7Proto-Germanicfingrazfinger
8Proto-Indo-Europeanpenkʷrós

via English un

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishunOne
Every word from Proto-Indo-European penkʷrósEvery word from Proto-Germanic fingrazEvery word from Proto-West Germanic fingr
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