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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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishfingeredsimple past tense and past participle of finger;...
2EnglishfingerA slender jointed extremity of the human hand, ...
3GermanFingerfinger
4Middle High Germanvinger—
5Old High Germanfingarfinger
6Proto-West Germanicfingrfinger
7Proto-Germanicfingrazfinger
8Proto-Indo-Europeanpenkʷrós—
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