English, German , and Jewish surname, from the noun finger .
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From Middle High German vinger , Old High German fingar , from Proto-West Germanic * fingr , from Proto-Germanic * fingraz , from Proto-Indo-European * penkʷrós . Compare Low German Finger , Dutch vinger , English finger , Danish finger , Yiddish פֿינגער ( finger ) .
Inherited from Middle High German vinger .
From Old Saxon fingar .
From Old Frisian finger , from Proto-West Germanic * fingr , from Proto-Germanic * fingraz .
From Middle High German vinger , from Old High German fingar . Compare German Finger , Dutch vinger , English finger .
From Old Frisian finger , from Proto-West Germanic * fingr . Cognates include West Frisian finger and German Finger .
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verbhistorical-form prefix
feign
To invent, fabricate, make a likeness, or pretend; borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin fingere, to shape or fashion.
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fiction
Invented narrative, imaginative creation, pretense, or legal assumption; borrowed through French from Latin fictio, an action of shaping, molding, or feigning.
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Does fiction descend from figure?
No. Latin fictiō and figūra are sibling formations in the fingere and *dheigh- family; neither English word is the parent of the other.
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Fiction is historically something shaped.
Latin fictiō names shaping or molding, feigning, and pretense before English literary narrative becomes one major center.
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Feign once included making, not only pretending.
Middle English feynen could mean make, fabricate, or make a likeness as well as dissemble or pretend, continuing the fingere shaping family.
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