nagal

From Proto-West Germanic *nagl, whence also Old English næġl, Old Norse nagl.

nagal m

1. A nail, pin (metal spike used for fastening) [from 8th c.]
2. (anatomy) A nail [from 9th c.]

• Middle High German: nagel, nail, nāl, negel, neil
  • Bavarian: Någl

    Cimbrian: naaghel

    Mòcheno: nagel

  • Central Franconian: Nohl, Nähl, Näl, Nääl, Nahl, Nagel

    Hunsrik: Naaghel

    Luxembourgish: Nol

  • German: Nagel
    • → Russian: нагель (nagelʹ)
  • Alemannic German: Nagel
  • Yiddish: נאָגל (nogl), נאגיל (nogil) (Middle Yiddish, attested in Shemot Devarim)

• "nagal" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)
• Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Nagel”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

• *negil

From Proto-West Germanic *nagl, whence also Old English næġl, Old Norse nagl.

nagal m

1. nail (of the fingers and toes)

• Middle Low German: nāgel, nēgel
  • German Low German: Nagel
  • Plautdietsch: Noagel