Ringfinger

From Ring (“ring”) +‎ Finger (“finger”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɪŋˌfɪŋɐ/

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• Hyphenation: Ring‧fin‧ger

Ringfinger m (strong, genitive Ringfingers, plural Ringfinger)

1. ring finger (finger next to the little finger)

   Synonyms: (dated) Goldfinger, Herzfinger

• The word refers to the fourth finger of either hand. However, it may be used especially of the finger of that hand on which a person wears their wedding ring, which is predominantly (though far from exclusively) the right hand in German-speaking Europe.

• Finger

• Zeigefinger, Mittelfinger, kleiner Finger
• Daumen

• “Ringfinger” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Ringfinger” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Ringfinger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Ringfinger” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈriŋˌfiŋa/
• Rhymes: -iŋa
• Syllabification: Ring‧fin‧ger

Ringfinger m (plural Ringfinger)

1. ring finger

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Ring (“ring”) +‎ Finger (“finger”). Akin to Dutch ringvinger and German Ringfinger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪŋˌfɪŋər/
• Hyphenation: Ring‧fin‧ger

Ringfinger m (plural Ringfingere)

1. ring finger

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Ringfinger”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN