Etymology

agnail

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Today it means: Torn skin near a toenail or fingernail. Full definition →

Middle English agnail ← Old English angnægl ← Proto-Germanic *naglaz
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₃nogʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*naglaz
  3. Old English · inherited fromangnægl
  4. Middle English · inherited fromagnail
  5. English todayagnail

From Middle English agnail, from Old English angnægl, from ang- + nægl, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ-.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishagnail all →

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Proto-Germanic*naglaz all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.