I like that I’ve spent time in maybe half the red countries and never learned this. Doigts de pied? Deget de la picior? Palets’ na nozi? Dedo del pie? You march to the dictionary building right now and make a word for toe. It is 2023 and Portugal has no excuse to say “dedo do pé” as if it’s a serious word.
edit: And Ukraine, don’t think I didn’t notice that even your word for toe has Nozi in it.
It makes no sense to have a word for that if you ask me, they are fingers, what’s the difference, you need to remember an extra word for it, it’s memory space wasted by something ridiculous imo.
They serve different functions. Toes are for balance and stability, fingers grasp and lift. Transplanting one to the other technically works but not well enough to be practical. If I had an ambulance call that someone had broken their fingers I’d expect them to be able to walk while breaking their toes means a gurney. I’d get not differentiating between ring finger/index finger/middle finger and I don’t think there are common English words for the middle toes, but fingers/toes are very different to me.
Well, no one would say ‘My fingers are broken’ meaning their toes in Spanish, you would say 'The foot’s fingers are broken" or ‘I’ve hurt my foot’ and then specify what’s happened. They are different things alright, that’s why one is a compound word and the other isn’t.
I found a worse offence that English uses ‘the day before yesterday’ instead of a word, in Spanish we have ‘antier’ or ‘anteayer’.
I like that I’ve spent time in maybe half the red countries and never learned this. Doigts de pied? Deget de la picior? Palets’ na nozi? Dedo del pie? You march to the dictionary building right now and make a word for toe. It is 2023 and Portugal has no excuse to say “dedo do pé” as if it’s a serious word.
edit: And Ukraine, don’t think I didn’t notice that even your word for toe has Nozi in it.
Hey “dedo do pé” is a bit dumb but we have big thumb as a word for the biggest toe so thats cool
Spanish has a word for every finger except the middle one.
You can say “doigts de pied” in french, but it does still have an actual word for toes: orteils.
I don’t know about the other red countries, but the French speaking ones should be green here.
It makes no sense to have a word for that if you ask me, they are fingers, what’s the difference, you need to remember an extra word for it, it’s memory space wasted by something ridiculous imo.
They serve different functions. Toes are for balance and stability, fingers grasp and lift. Transplanting one to the other technically works but not well enough to be practical. If I had an ambulance call that someone had broken their fingers I’d expect them to be able to walk while breaking their toes means a gurney. I’d get not differentiating between ring finger/index finger/middle finger and I don’t think there are common English words for the middle toes, but fingers/toes are very different to me.
Well, no one would say ‘My fingers are broken’ meaning their toes in Spanish, you would say 'The foot’s fingers are broken" or ‘I’ve hurt my foot’ and then specify what’s happened. They are different things alright, that’s why one is a compound word and the other isn’t.
I found a worse offence that English uses ‘the day before yesterday’ instead of a word, in Spanish we have ‘antier’ or ‘anteayer’.
2 days ago?
I guess that is better but if you need to interpret it is not useful because it needs to be exact translations.
can you hold things with them. That’s a big difference
the phrase “toe the line” is objectively better than “foot finger the line”
Dedos de los pies
Toe thumb is “dedo gordo del pie”