| 单词 | nameless finger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnameless finger nameless finger n. now rare the ring finger. [Compare Middle Dutch nāmelōse vinger, Middle Low German nāmelōse vinger, Middle High German der vinger ungenant (German ungenannter Finger (now rare)), early modern German namloß finger (15th cent.), Swedish namnlös finger, all in sense ‘ring finger’, and compare also similarly formed names for the ring finger in many other languages.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > ring finger ring fingereOE leech-fingerc1000 leechc1290 leechman14.. medicinable finger?a1475 ring man?c1475 wedding-finger1543 nameless finger1584 medicinal finger1598 physic finger1621 physical finger1623 physician finger1623 medical finger1653 marriage finger1711 ring digit1867 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xii. xviii. 273 Put thy nameles finger in the wound. 1874 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Dec. 11 Did the Aryan borrow it from the Turanian, or the Turanian from the Aryan? Then, why should the ring-finger be called the ‘nameless finger’? 1915 T. W. Arnoldson Parts of Body in Older Germanic & Scand. 68 Nameless finger (hdg.), Sw[edish] dial[ect] namnlös (finger), næmlusfinger, næmnusfinger ring finger, lit. nameless finger... MHG. der vinger ungenannt der vierte Finger, Ringfinger, lit. the unnamed finger. 1939 Y. Lin Moment in Peking 61 We pound them [sc. flowers] into pulp and add a little alum, and rub it on the ‘nameless finger’ (third finger). < as lemmas |
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