Re:Tamil Bell
by vram22 on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:54PM
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Yes, good point. Sort of the same is true in Hindi. I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong, anyone) that there are separate words for fingers and toes in Hindi - the word ung(a)li [1] is used for both, IIRC - and they may add the Hindi word for foot if they are referring to toes rather than fingers.
Just checked it in Google Translate:
finger - उंगली
toe - पैर की अंगुली (finger of foot)
though you can see that they use two different spellings for ungali there - the latter one reads as anguli.
I used to think that the former was the right spelling, but on seeing the above now, remembered the story of Angulimala and Buddha, so maybe both are correct spellings:
Just checked it in Google Translate:
finger - उंगली toe - पैर की अंगुली (finger of foot)
though you can see that they use two different spellings for ungali there - the latter one reads as anguli.
I used to think that the former was the right spelling, but on seeing the above now, remembered the story of Angulimala and Buddha, so maybe both are correct spellings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angulimala