onglle

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

onlhe, onlyi (Beaujolais) on-ille, on-ye (Beaujolais) onlye (Bressan) onlye (Fribourgeois) anglië (Savoyard) onlle (Valdôtain) ongla (ORB, narrow) oungla (Piemontais)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ungula.

Noun

onglle f (plural onglles)

1. fingernail

References

• ongle in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• onglle in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 157: “l'unghia; le unghie” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 942: “ongle” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ŭngŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 38