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agnail

Meaningcorn on the foot

Common meaning: loose skin beside a fingernail

Journey through time

  1. Old Englishangnægl‘corn on the foot’sourceB&T
  2. Frenchangonaillesource
  3. Englishmeaning shiftscorn on the foot → loose skin beside a fingernailagnail‘loose skin beside a fingernail’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old English angnægl ‘corn on the foot’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry AGNAIL, p. 13 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • angnægl Old English “corn on the foot”

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