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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 127 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

German Word for mittens is Fäustlinge, literally fistlings.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Okay but that's kinda adorable

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Handschuhe ist korrekt. Perfekte Rechtschreibung. Gratuliere.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 95 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Germany not calling them "feet fingers" was unexpected.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months 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 38 points 2 months ago (6 children)

German has "Finger" and "Zehen"

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[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (15 children)

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

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 64 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (4 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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] georgette@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Real funny they coloured it differently, because Flanders literally shares a language with The Netherlands.

To be fair half the world seems to forget Belgium is not all french sometimes, or puts french as the default even though Flanders' population is almost twice as large as Wallonie. Even adding the population of Brussels and Wallonie, Flanders still has the larger population. (Numbers for stats come from statbel)

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[–] tino@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

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[–] msantossilva@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 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 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

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.

Sucking on fingers is an entirely different kink from sucking on toes. So somewhat different I suppose.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

I mean, you can start calling all sorts of body parts the same shit, and some of them even have words already. Like we say arms and legs, but we could also say upper and lower limbs. We've got knees and elbows and shoulders, but they're all just joints.

Now I'm wondering what languages have the fewest words that could describe the entire body, as in once you break down the word "body" into any number of parts (without using the word "body", like upper and lower body), how many other words are needed? I think in English you couldn't get away with anything less than head, neck, torso, and extremities (although one might argue that the latter refers only to hands and feet so you'd have to put limbs back in as well).

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sooo.... "nubbins"?

(German "Nubsis" comes to mind as well)

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[–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago

French supports both designation.

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No it's the part that includes everything below the ankle. Basically the foot.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 months ago

Where's the "toes of the hand" section?

[–] Michal@programming.dev 10 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Finofilipino@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Hungary calls them foot fingers, should be red

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months 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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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

So, feet fingers, or "feengers"?

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