Peter Oram on Nostr: Okay. My mind is blown. The word “pinkie” for the little finger sounds so Anglo! ...
Okay. My mind is blown. The word “pinkie” for the little finger sounds so Anglo! But the Proto-Indo-European word for finger is reconstructed as *penkwe-ros, related to the word for 5: *penkwe (or *penqe). Coincidence? I think not.
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