ugna

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

ugna f

1. (anatomy) nail

   Synonym: unghja

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

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

• Rhymes: -uɲɲa

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

ugna f (plural ugne)

1. (archaic, regional) alternative form of unghia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ugna

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

• unga

• ugnu (masculine variant)

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.

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

ugna f (plural ugni or ugna)

1. fingernail

   Mi si ruppi n'ugna. ― My fingernail broke

2. plural of ugnu

• 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.

(body parts)

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