German Word for mittens is Fäustlinge, literally fistlings.

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".

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

I suspected it was rage bait, starting with the British isles being coloured green, despite the existence of the word 'toe' there.

Belgium doesn't really exist.

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

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

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)

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

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).

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.

Sooo.... "nubbins"?

(German "Nubsis" comes to mind as well)

It's the same in spanish

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

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.

No trolling of Wallonia please.

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

We have a word for toe, and we don't use it very much.

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

Ok, so Albanian and Greek are the outliers here. Albanian is its own language group.

Though, to be fair to Greek, the word is for toe and finger is δάχτυλο. Dachtylo. Which is kind of like "digit." Even in Koine Greek. Also, arm and hand are the same word, and leg and foot are the same word.

My Greek isn't good enough to say for sure, but a pre-Google language manuals call both finger and toe dachtylo. Then specify hand or foot. Or...specify arm or leg? Arm digit? Leg digit?

Greece should be a grey "N/A"

For some reason I always get really annoyed when Lithuanian gets grouped into slavic even when it makes sense.

In hungarian we have a similar thing but for your foot and hand, its leg-head and arm-head respectively.

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.

Well, there's "dłoń" for hand. "Ręka" means the whole arm, including the hand, I assume.

Eight. A thumb is not a finger.

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.

Engagement shitposting

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

Did you just call finnish, estonian and hungarian "germanic" languages?

That is specifically the name for the big toe though, and while there are names for the various other toes (they're quite uncommon, I don't remember them), they're not generic like "toe"

That's not what a toe is. Toes are the digits on feet. Palec is either "thumb" if on hand or "big toe" in on a foot.

I'm pretty sure the English don't even consider the things on your feet to be fingers at all, though they can say "digits" to cover both fingers and toes (so "digit" would be the most exact translation of "prst", rather than finger... though in most contexts "finger" is good enough).

It's a Google Translate issue. It says some version of prst nogi/noši for every Slavic language.

At least they usually use 脚 for leg and 足 for foot, even if they're homophones.