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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nagutis. Morphologically from *noga (“foot”) + *-ъtь. Cognate with Lithuanian nagùtis and Old Prussian nagutis.
Noun
*nȍgъtь m
- (anatomy) nail
Declension
Per Derksen 2008, this can alternatively be reconstructed with jo-stem declension.
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: ногъть (nogŭtĭ)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ноготь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nogъtь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 355