Noun: fingernail
| Singular | fingernail |
| Plural | fingernails |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like fingernail
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English finger neil(e); equivalent to finger + nail. Compare Middle English nayl of fynger (“fingernail”) and Old English handnæġl (“fingernail”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fingernail (“fingernail”), West Frisian fingerneil (“fingernail”), Dutch vingernagel (“fingernail”), German Fingernagel (“fingernail”), Danish fingernegl (“fingernail”), Swedish fingernagel (“fingernail”), Norwegian fingernegl (“fingernail”), Icelandic fingurnögl (“fingernail”). See: Middle English Nouns '
nayl of fynger', Dutch Nouns '
vingernagel', German Nouns '
Fingernagel', Danish Nouns '
fingernegl', Swedish Nouns '
fingernagel'.
Verbs referencing "fingernail"
Dutch Nouns
vingernagel, Danish Nouns
fingernegl, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
fingernegl, Swedish Nouns
fingernagel.