English

fingersbreadth

From finger + -s- + breadth.

Formed from finger + -s- + breadth

Proto-Germanic *fingraz ‘finger’

Proto-West Germanic *fingr

Old English finger

Middle English fynger ‘a finger’

Middle English brede

Middle English bredthe

Today it means

noun —

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fingersbreadth