nail
要点つめ、くぎ
意味
- (手の)つめ(fingernail);《まれ》(足の)つめ(toe-nail);(鳥獣の)つめ(claw, talon)
- くぎ,びょう
- (…に)…をくぎ(びょう)で止める《+名+on(to)+名》
- (…に)〈人,人の注意・目など〉をくぎ付けにする《+名+on(to)+名》
- 《話》…をつかまえる,しとめる;〈うそなど〉を見破る
例文
Whenever I saw her, her nails were neatly trimmed.
いつ見ても爪がきれいに切りそろえられていた。
You must get rid of the habit of biting your nails.
つめをかむ癖を止めなければいけない。
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
出る釘は打たれる。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English nail, nayl, Old English næġl, from Proto-West Germanic *nagl, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ- (“nail”). Cognates Compare North Frisian Nail (“nail”), Saterland Frisian Nail (“nail”), West Frisian neil, German and Low German Nagel, Dutch and Swedish nagel, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål negl, Norwegian Nynorsk nagl, Finnish naula (“nail”), Estonian nael (“nail”), (compare Irish ionga, Latin unguis, Albanian nyell (“ankle, hard part of a limb”), Lithuanian nagas, Russian нога́ (nogá, “foot, leg”), но́готь (nógotʹ, “nail”), Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux), Persian ناخن (nâxon), Sanskrit नख (nakhá).