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I know finger and thumb, but what about the names of the single fingers? In Italian, starting from the thumbs: 1. pollice (for hands); alluce (for feet) 2. indice 3. medio 4. anulare (literally "the ring finger") 5. mignolo
When making the gesture, the hand looks like a bird in flight. The word "pink" has an interesting history. It originated with a Dutch word meaning "small" so the pinkie finger for the little finger is not thought to be related to the color (the color name is from the flower "pink" (Dianthus) as is the "pinking" in "pinking shears").
Hi, what are the names of the fingers in french? In English we have the Thumb, the Pointer finger, the Middle Finger, the Ring Finger, and the Pinky. Are there equivalents in French? Thanks!
Ruka is arm, but it can also be used for hand. Šaka is hand and hand only. Rame is shoulder. Nadlaktica is upper arm. Podlaktica is forearm. Lakat is elbow. Mišica is biceps and upper arm also. Dlan is palm. Nadlanica is back of a hand. Prsti - digits, both fingers and toes, Noga - leg,usage same as in Polish. Stopalo - foot and foot only ...
Each hand may have any number of fingers ranging from say ten to even fourteen fingers. At the time to which I refer, commercially, only a stem of bananas with nine hands was called a bunch, and each hand must have at least twelve fingers. If it has ten hands they will cut off one hand.
If you crook either your fingers on one hand or the entire wrist at a 90 degree angle to your arm, face your fingertips towards your neck, and waggle your hand back and forth so that you alternate pointing at your shoulders, it's a pretty unambiguous "no, stop" gesture (it's also "I am out of air" in scuba sign, but I suppose that's not really ...
Then there are gloves which have hinged fingers: the covering of the two lower joints is only attached at the back, and can thus be folded back to expose the lower joints. Apart from those types, there are mittens or mitts which, as others have said, cover the whole hand, including the fingers, but without a separate covering for each finger.
The idiom in BE is "I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times..." Less frequently: " I can count on my fingers the number of times..." "Counting with/on their fingers" is something young children do.
Having been to lots of churches in multiple places, I've seen that the instruction to "fold your hand in prayer" can refer to several possible hand positions as in #4, #5, and a few other variations. You do what ever you've been taught or the people around you do. It's not consistent world-wide.
Is there a hand gesture, sign or signal for "money" in your culture? Can you describe it? English: Put the index finger and middle finger together and touch them to the thumb, then rub the thumb gently against the two fingers. I believe that it imitates the sound/feel of rubbing paper money between the fingers. Other threads related to gestures: