Word Origin Summary

Unguis is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *h₃negʰ-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. *ungusProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ungiectomy

  English · derived from

• ungo

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• unguis

  English · borrowed from

• ungual

  English · derived from

• ungla

  Aragonese · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root