ongle

Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *ungla, syncopated form of Latin ungula, from unguis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃negʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̃ɡl/

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ongle m (plural ongles)

1. nail, fingernail

• ongulé

• Haitian Creole: zong
• Mauritian Creole: zong

• “ongle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.