adjective for thumb is ''pollical''.

Definition

Thumb and fingers

The English word finger has two senses, even in the context of appendages of a single typical human hand:1) Any of the five terminal members of the hand.2) Any of the four terminal members of the hand, other than the thumb.

Linguistically, it appears that the original sense was the first of these two: *penkwe-ros (also rendered as *penqrós) was, in

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