Fòram na Gàidhlig

I can't find out how which word I could confidently use for "toe".

- ladhar has many hits on AFB map but those can rely to "hoof", the only sense given in Mark and in Watson
- corrag is given as either "finger" or "toe" in AFB, but only as "finger" in Mark and in Watson. Now in my L1 you do have a single word which can mean either, but is it true about Gaelic corrag as well?
- and most confusingly, Messrs M & W see òrdag(-coise) as either "thumb" or "toe", with òrdag mhòr as "big toe", while AFB has òrdag(-coise) itself as "big toe"

Anybody in the know?

Chleachdainn fhèin "òrdag", ach chan eil Gàidhlig on ghlùin agam. Is dòcha gu bheil e a' crochadh air an dualchainnt?

This is one of those peculiar language-specific oddities, òrdag/corrag are both equally valid for the bits on ur hands AND feet. If you need to be specific, follow that with -coise.

It's counter-intuitive to a language like English or German but then, it's equally weird from, say, a Cantonese point of view not to distinguish gāng and tōng, thick and thin soup

akerbeltz wrote:This is one of those peculiar language-specific oddities, òrdag/corrag are both equally valid for the bits on our hands AND feet. If you need to be specific, follow that with -coise.

I see, so it's like Czech with palec/prst referring to either (big)thumb/fingertoe and only specifiable by adding "... at hand/foot".

akerbeltz wrote:It's counter-intuitive to a language like English or German but then, it's equally weird from, say, a Cantonese point of view not to distinguish gāng and tōng, thick and thin soup

This is exactly the problem at times like this: one is quite comfortable with the way English handles the matter, quite comfortable with the way another language handles it - but unable to make out which of the two ways Gaelic has chosen (unless it's chosen a third to make it even more interesting )...

Anyway, thanks a lot!