Names
Some languages have different names for hand and foot digits (English: respectively "finger" and "toe", French: "doigts" and "orteils").
In other languages, e.g. Russian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Tagalog, Turkish & Persian there are no specific one-word names for fingers and toes; these are called "digit of the hand" or "digit of the foot" instead.
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