fingar

Ido

Verb

fingar (present tense fingas, past tense fingis, future tense fingos, imperative fingez, conditional fingus)

1. to feign
2. to sham
3. to pretend

Conjugation

Conjugation of fingar

		present		past		future
infinitive		fingar		fingir		fingor
tense		fingas		fingis		fingos
conditional		fingus		—		—
imperative		fingez		—		—
adjective active participle		finganta		finginta		fingonta
adverbial active participle		fingante		finginte		fingonte
nominal active participle	singular	finganto		finginto		fingonto
	plural	finganti		finginti		fingonti
adjective passive participle		fingata		fingita		fingota
adverbial passive participle		fingate		fingite		fingote
nominal passive participle	singular	fingato		fingito		fingoto
	plural	fingati		fingiti		fingoti

Latin

Verb

fingar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of fingō

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz.

Noun

fingar m

1. finger

Inflection

Declension of fingar (masculine a-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	fingar	fingara
accusative	fingar	fingara
genitive	fingares	fingaro
dative	fingare	fingaron

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: vinger
  • Dutch: vinger
    • Afrikaans: vinger
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: finggri
    • Negerhollands: vinger, fiṅgu, finger
    • →? Aukan: finga
    • →? Caribbean Hindustani: ungri
    • →? Sranan Tongo: finga
      • → Saramaccan: fingá
  • Limburgish: vinger, vènger

Further reading

• “fingar”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós.

Noun

fingar m

1. (anatomy) finger

Declension

Declension of fingar (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	fingar	fingara
accusative	fingar	fingara
genitive	fingares	fingaro
dative	fingare	fingarum
instrumental	fingaru	—

Descendants

• Middle High German: vinger
  • Alemannic German:
    • Swabian: Fengr
  • Bavarian: Finga
    • Cimbrian: vingar, bingar (Mezzaselva)
  • Central Franconian:
    • Hunsrik: Finger
    • Luxembourgish: Fanger
  • German: Finger
  • Vilamovian: fyngier
  • Yiddish: פֿינגער (finger)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fingr.

Noun

fingar m

1. finger

Declension

fingar (masculine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	fingar	fingaros
accusative	fingar	fingaros
genitive	fingares	fingarō
dative	fingare	fingarum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Low German: Finger