Do other fingers get their own names in those languages, though? Or is thumb special, like in English?
I don’t think that’s right? I know polish has a separate word, and sampling in Google translate seems to show separate words in German, french and Spanish. Maybe I got lucky and hit the exceptions, but it seems to commonly be a separate word.
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 day ago
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
Not sure about other languages, but in polish the thumb is “kciuk”, while the rest are variants on finger - “palec wskazujący”, “palec środkowy”
isyasad@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I only know Japanese, but it is 親指 (oya yubi) which means parent-finger.