peukalo.
thumb (finger, digit)
Meaning & usage
thumb (finger, digit)
pollex
thumb of a glove
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *peikälo (with varying forms in descendants, such as dialectal peikalo, Karelian peikalo, Veps peigol, Estonian pöial, Livonian pēgal), probably a somewhat irregular derivation of Proto-Uralic *pelkä (compare Northern Sami bealgi, Erzya пелька (peľka, “thumb”), Komi-Zyrian пев (pev)).
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