English
fingerwise
From finger + -wise.
Formed from finger + -wise
Proto-Germanic *fingraz ‘finger’
Proto-West Germanic *fingr
Old English finger
Middle English fynger ‘a finger’
English finger
Today it means
adv In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fingerwise