hangnail

Etymology
Corruption of, by folk-etymological reanalysis as ; from , from , from. The first part is from, from , while the second is from , from. The first component, is also the origin of, , and , while  is the origin of. Compare more "pure" 🇨🇬, and similarly folk-influenced dialectal variants and, all meaning "hangnail" and from Middle English. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬,.

Original sense of “loose strip of tissue”; the sense of “pointed corner of nail” is modern, and is connected with the reanalysis, due to stockings catching or “hanging” on the nail.

Noun

 * 1) A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
 * 2)  A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes.
 * 1)  A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes.

Usage notes
(“pointed upper corner of the toenail”) appears in promotional podiatry literature.

Translations

 * Arabic: سَأْفَة
 * Basque: hatz-bizar
 * Belarusian: завусе́ніца, задзі́рына, жыві́ца
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: záděra
 * Danish: neglerod
 * Dutch: nijdnagel,, dwangnagel,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, petite peau
 * Galician: respigo,
 * German:, Neidnagel
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: annögl
 * Italian: pipita
 * Japanese: ささくれ, さかむけ
 * Kannada:
 * Korean: 거스러미
 * Latin:
 * Limburgish: nagelren
 * Macedonian: зано́ктица
 * Malay: kuku betul
 * Old English: angnæġl
 * Polish:, zadzior
 * Portuguese:
 * Romansch: spina da latg, spina da charn
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за̀ноктица
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: záder
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: taingandaga
 * Ukrainian: за́дирка, за́дерень
 * Welsh: ewinbil