vinger

From Dutch vinger, from Middle Dutch vinger, from Old Dutch finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəŋ.ər/

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vinger (plural vingers)

1. finger

• wysvinger

vinger c

1. indefinite plural of vinge

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪŋər/

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• Hyphenation: vin‧ger
• Rhymes: -ɪŋər

From Middle Dutch vinger, from Old Dutch fingar, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

vinger m (plural vingers or vingeren, diminutive vingertje n)

1. finger

   Synonym: (plural only) fikken

• Afrikaans: vinger
• Berbice Creole Dutch: finggri
• Negerhollands: vinger, fiṅgu, finger
• →? Aukan: finga
• →? Caribbean Hindustani: ungri
• →? Sranan Tongo: finga
  • → Saramaccan: fingá

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vinger

1. inflection of vingeren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Old Dutch fingar, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

vinger m

1. finger
2. finger, digit (a unit of measure)

• Dutch: vinger
  • Afrikaans: vinger
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: finggri
  • Negerhollands: vinger, fiṅgu, finger
  • →? Aukan: finga
  • →? Caribbean Hindustani: ungri
  • →? Sranan Tongo: finga
    • → Saramaccan: fingá
• Limburgish: vinger, vènger

• “vingher”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vinger”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

vinger

1. alternative form of fynger

From Old High German fingar, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈvɪŋɡər/, /ˈfɪŋɡər/

vinger m

1. finger

• Alemannic German:
  • Swabian: Fengr
• Bavarian: Finga
  • Cimbrian: vingar, bingar (Mezzaselva)
• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Finger
  • Luxembourgish: Fanger
• German: Finger
• Vilamovian: fyngier
• Yiddish: פֿינגער (finger)

• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
• “vinger” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.

vinger m

1. indefinite plural of vinge

From Middle English fynger, from Old English finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪŋɡər/

vinger

1. finger
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 53:

     Lethel vinger.

     Little finger.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75