135: nail Apr 22, 2015

The word 'nail' comes the Old English word 'nægel'. That word is, being Old English, of Germanic origin, and is related to Dutch 'nagel', and German word 'nagel'. Those two words are also related to the Latin for 'nail', 'unguis' and Greek, 'onux' even though these four words do not all sound terribly similar to each other. The way this is possible is that all four of these words are derived from a shared Indo-European root, and is the reason why the words all have an 'n' sound at the beginning.