In Polish, "ręka" can mean both arm and hand and which one it is is context dependent
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Kinda same in Slovenian. You don't shake hands, you shake arms. Anything you do with your hands is done with your arms. The word for hand is not used that often.
This unites the Germanic and Uralic languages in by far the most important cultural way.
in French, les orteils but also plenty of slang: les nougats, les arpions, les radis, les haricots...
We have a word for toe, and we don't use it very much.
Well we definitely have both, we do also say "doigts de pied".
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.
Not quite. Green countries are germanic or uralic (finnish, estonian, hungarian). I assume each country is only represented by a single language on the map, and Ireland is probably assumed to be speaking English according to this map.
In certain Austroasiatic languages, your wrists and ankles are your hand-necks and foot-necks.
In hungarian we have a similar thing but for your foot and hand, its leg-head and arm-head respectively.
I have a theory: If you need 3 or 4 words in some language to specify "Fingers of the feet", they will make their own word for it, because it is troublesome to say. In Polish it's just "palce u nóg" (which means something like fingers (toes ofc) next to legs, which don't make much sense, but we don't think about it).
In that case wouldn't German have to use something like Fußfinger instead of Zeh?
Yeah, as if we ever had trouble making something one word.
Wait. "Palce u nóg" would translate rather to "fingers at legs" not "next to legs" which has a lot more sense. Still sounds weird but yeah.
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.
Are you really telling me that cookie clicker was made by a french toe?
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Now do one for who has a word for "glove" vs "hand shoe".
German Word for mittens is Fäustlinge, literally fistlings.
Okay but that's kinda adorable
Byt then you also have Handschuhe (I bet I typed that wrong)
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.
Huh what? Dedos are fingers. And we say "dedos dos pés".
You said "nope" then wrote a paragraph of text to confirm what you just tried to deny.
what is essentially the same fucking shit.
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You stubbed your finger?
As someone who only speaks English, the cognitive map made by that language is kind of disgusted to think of toes and fingers interchangably.
Fingers are (or should be) clean, and are allowed to touch many things. I am perfectly comfortable touching many things with my fingers that other people's fingers have touched.
But toes? Toes are gross. They are not interchangeable with fingers. Unless I'm in the shower cleaning my toes, if my fingers touch my toes I probably need to wash my hands after. And other people's toes?...
No - toes and fingers are not the same thing. My toes are great, I'm glad to have them for balance while walking or running. But they are not fingers, or vis versa
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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"
By that logic, it should be both green and red, because it looks like "lábujj" is both a word, and like you said it means "footfinger".
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Hungary calls them foot fingers, should be red
Where's the "toes of the hand" section?
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