German Word for mittens is Fäustlinge, literally fistlings.

I'm wondering if they got France and Germany mixed up. I don't remember all the French I was taught growing up, but it didn't sound right. So I googled it and got "droigts" and "orteils" for "fingers" and "toes".

Sociocultural boundaries are almost entirely grounded in language. Nation states are almost entirely grounded in imagination.

Belgium doesn't really exist.

You can also use "doigts de pied" in French, so you can be whichever colour you like.

Are you really telling me that cookie clicker was made by a french toe?

Real funny they coloured it differently, because Flanders literally shares a language with The Netherlands.

To be fair half the world seems to forget Belgium is not all french sometimes, or puts french as the default even though Flanders' population is almost twice as large as Wallonie. Even adding the population of Brussels and Wallonie, Flanders still has the larger population. (Numbers for stats come from statbel)

No trolling of Wallonia please.

Well we definitely have both, we do also say "doigts de pied".

to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.

I mean, you can start calling all sorts of body parts the same shit, and some of them even have words already. Like we say arms and legs, but we could also say upper and lower limbs. We've got knees and elbows and shoulders, but they're all just joints.

Now I'm wondering what languages have the fewest words that could describe the entire body, as in once you break down the word "body" into any number of parts (without using the word "body", like upper and lower body), how many other words are needed? I think in English you couldn't get away with anything less than head, neck, torso, and extremities (although one might argue that the latter refers only to hands and feet so you'd have to put limbs back in as well).

Now, that may seem weird to some, but to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.

Sucking on fingers is an entirely different kink from sucking on toes. So somewhat different I suppose.

Sooo.... "nubbins"?

(German "Nubsis" comes to mind as well)

It's the same in spanish

Hungarian has a word for the middle toe and it is "foothead"?

Engagement shitposting

In catalán it's "dits del peu", so the same as in spanish. There is no equivalent to toe.

Ok, so Albanian and Greek are the outliers here. Albanian is its own language group.

Though, to be fair to Greek, the word is for toe and finger is δάχτυλο. Dachtylo. Which is kind of like "digit." Even in Koine Greek. Also, arm and hand are the same word, and leg and foot are the same word.

My Greek isn't good enough to say for sure, but a pre-Google language manuals call both finger and toe dachtylo. Then specify hand or foot. Or...specify arm or leg? Arm digit? Leg digit?

Greece should be a grey "N/A"

In hungarian we have a similar thing but for your foot and hand, its leg-head and arm-head respectively.