The OED lists the origin as:

[ad. (perh. through F. dactyle) L. dactylus, a. Gr. d0jstko|, a finger, a date, a dactyl (from its 3 joints).]

(Sorry, I don't know how to get the Greek characters to copy properly)

The OED contains 36 words with dactyl*.
The one I found most interesting was: dactylology
[f. Gr. d0jstko| finger + -kocia discourse: see -logy.]
‘Finger-speech’; the art of ‘speaking’ or communicating ideas by signs made with the fingers, as in the deaf-and-dumb alphabet. (Formerly chirology.)

Since you also mentioned French:
dactylographie (nf) - typing, typewriting