ugna

Corsican

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin ungula (< unguis), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ-. Cognate with Italian unghia, Sicilian ugna.

Noun

ugna f

1. (anatomy) nail

   Synonym: unghja

Further reading

• “ugna” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Italian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *ungla < Latin ungula (< unguis), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ-.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uɲɲa

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɲ.ɲa/
• Rhymes: -uɲɲa
• Hyphenation: ù‧gna

Noun

ugna f (plural ugne)

1. (archaic, regional) alternative form of unghia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ugna

1. inflection of ugnare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• unga

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• ugnu (masculine variant)

Etymology

If not influenced by another romance adstratum, from the intermediate metathesis *u-nj-a > *u-n-(g)j-a, from Vulgar Latin *ungla, syncopated form of Latin ungula (f.s.), ultimately from unguis (m.s.). Doublet of ugnu. Cognate with Sardinian unga, Corsican ugna, Italian unghia, Neapolitan ogna, Ligurian óngia, Piedmontese ongie, Aragonese ungla, Asturian uña, Galician unlla, Portuguese unha, Spanish uña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɲ.ɲa/, [ˈu.ɲːa]
• Rhymes: -uɲɲa
• Hyphenation: ù‧gna

Noun

ugna f (plural ugni or ugna)

1. fingernail

   Mi si ruppi n'ugna. ― My fingernail broke

2. plural of ugnu

Usage notes

• This feminine noun has a more archaic doublet in the masculine form that has a regular plural ending in ⟨-a⟩. Although the plural of this feminine noun regularly declines to ⟨-i⟩, it is also typical to hear the feminine singular ending in ⟨-a⟩ and the masculine plural ending in -a used, depending on the speaker.

Coordinate terms

(body parts)

• axiḍḍa
• coḍḍu
• gùvitu
• jamma
• jitu
• manu
• maxiḍḍa
• spaḍḍa
• testa
• vrazzu

Derived terms

• corpu di ugna
• fari a cruci cu l'ugni
• grattari cu l'ugni
• tagghiàrisi l'ugni
• ugna curta
• ugna longa
• ugna rutta
• ugna tagghiata
• ugnata
• ugniteḍḍa
• ugnuzza

References

• Antonio Traina (1868), Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 1061