Noun: fynger
| Sg. | fynger |
| Pl. | fyngres; fyngers |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Blessid be my Lord God, that techith myn hondis to werre and my fyngris to batel. (Blessed be my Lord God, who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to battle.) [a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalm 143:1”, in Wycliffe's Bible:]
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And with hir fynger signes made she / That Damyan sholde clymbe upon a tree (And with her finger she made signs / That Damian should climb onto a tree) [a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 2209–2210:]
Nouns inflected like fynger
fynger,
Etymology
Inherited from Old English finger, from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós. See: Old English Nouns '
finger', Old English Nouns '
finger'.
Verbs referencing "fynger"
English Nouns
finger.
Translations