uña

From Vulgar Latin *ungla, from Latin ungula.

uña f (plural uñes)

1. hoof
2. nail, fingernail, toenail

• (hoof): caza, pezuña

• cortaúñes
• pezuña
• uñeru
• unguláu

From Proto-Mixtec *one.

uña

1. eight

• Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974) Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 18)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 149

• unha (reintegrationist)
• unlla

From Old Galician-Portuguese unlla, unna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *ungla, from Latin ungula. Cognate with Portuguese unha and Spanish uña.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɲa̝/

uña f (plural uñas)

1. nail, fingernail, toenail
2. claw, hoof

   Synonym: pezuño

3. spoor (of an animal)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “uña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uña”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “uña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “uña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “uña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• unna

Inherited from Latin ungula.

uña f (plural uñas)

1. nail (finger or toe)

• AEDLL

From Portuguese unha and Spanish uña and Kabuverdianu unha.

uña

1. fingernail
2. nail

uña

1. baby animal

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ungla, from Latin ungula, from unguis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃negʰ-. Compare Portuguese unha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɲa/ [ˈu.ɲa]

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• Rhymes: -uɲa
• Syllabification: u‧ña

uña f (plural uñas)

1. fingernail, toenail, nail
2. claw, hoof, stinger

• “uña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28