Translation
fingernail, toenail; claw
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Word origin
From Latin unguis, a nail or claw, from the same ancient root as Greek onyx and English nail.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- unguis
- English cognates
- ungual, onyx
Examples
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She cut her nails.
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The cat has sharp claws.
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He tapped the table with his nails.
is the horn-like plate on a finger or a toe, and by extension an
animal's claw. A big one - an eagle's, a lion's - is o, using the
augmentative --, and a small one o. The adjective is , a nail
file is an ungofajlilo, and a manicure is manikuro.
Do not read a suffix into it. is one root of three letters, -,
and there is nothing in front of the -o to decode. This chapter is full of
words that invite exactly that mistake -
benzino, kamelo,
balkono - and the rule is the same each time.
And keep it apart from . English uses "nail" for both the thing on
your finger and the thing you hit with a hammer; Esperanto does not.
Najlo is the metal one, from German Nagel;
is the one on your hand. Two words, two roots, no overlap - which is one of the
places where a planned language is simply tidier than the ones it was built
out of.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 24, lesson 2: ungo, konkuri, kamelo and 7 more words.