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(rādītāja pirksts)

Pirksti (1)

pirksts m (1st declension)

(anatomy) finger, toe (movable extremities of the hand or foot)

slaidi, gari pirksti‎ ― long, slender fingers

līki pirksti‎ ― crooked fingers

pirksta locītava‎ ― knuckle (lit. finger joint)

pirksta kauli, gali‎ ― finger bones, tips

pirkstu nospiedums‎ ― fingerprint

lielais pirksts‎ ― big toe

rādītāja pirksts, rādītājpirksts‎ ― index (lit. showing) finger

vidējais pirksts‎ ― middle finger

skaitīt uz pirkstiem‎ ― to count on one's fingers
finger (parts of a glove that cover the fingers)
noadīt cimda pirkstu‎ ― to knit a glove finger
elongated component or part of a mechanism
virzuļa pirksts‎ ― piston (connecting) rod

Declension of pirksts (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pirksts	pirksti
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pirkstu	pirkstus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pirksta	pirkstu
dative (datīvs)	pirkstam	pirkstiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pirkstu	pirkstiem
locative (lokatīvs)	pirkstā	pirkstos
vocative (vokatīvs)	pirkst	pirksti

↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “pirksts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pirštas, from Proto-Indo-European *per ‎(“over”) (whence also Latvian par, q.v.) in its reduced grade *pr̥, with *stā- ‎(“to stand”) (whence also Latvian stāt ‎(“to stop”), q.v.). The original meaning was therefore “(the one(s)) standing in front, directed to(ward) the front.” Cognates include Lithuanian pir̃štas, Old Prussian pīrsten (probably masculine accusative), nagepristis ‎(“toe nails, claws”) (< *nagepirstis), Proto-Slavic *prьstъ (Russian archaic перст ‎(perst), Ukrainian перст ‎(perst), Upper Sorbian porst, Bulgarian пръст ‎(prǎst), Czech prst, Polish parst), Old High German first ‎(“spike, protuberance”), German First ‎(“ridge, top”), Sanskrit पृष्ठम् ‎(pṛṣṭhám, “back, tip, ending”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(paršta-, “backbone, spine”), Latin postis ‎(“post, doorpost”) (< *porstis “the one standing in front”).^[1]