英语词汇hangnail的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hangnail. The Anglo-Saxon word angnaegl meant “a painful corn on the foot,” deriving from ang, “pain,” and naegel, “nail,” a hard corn resembling the head of a nail. Later, its meaning was extended to include a painful corn on the finger as well, or anywhere on the skin for that matter. This word, eventually pronounced angnail, appropriately defined a painful corn, but through mispronunciation an “h” was added to it. Hangnail served only as the term for a painful corn or swelling until someone in the early 17th century realized that it perfectly de- scribed the small strip of skin that sometimes tears away and hangs down from the fingernail, causing considerable pain. The mispronunciation that was superfluous in the old meaning of the word has become essential to the new meaning.

词汇	hangnail
词源	hangnail. The Anglo-Saxon word angnaegl meant “a painful corn on the foot,” deriving from ang, “pain,” and naegel, “nail,” a hard corn resembling the head of a nail. Later, its meaning was extended to include a painful corn on the finger as well, or anywhere on the skin for that matter. This word, eventually pronounced angnail, appropriately defined a painful corn, but through mispronunciation an “h” was added to it. Hangnail served only as the term for a painful corn or swelling until someone in the early 17th century realized that it perfectly de- scribed the small strip of skin that sometimes tears away and hangs down from the fingernail, causing considerable pain. The mispronunciation that was superfluous in the old meaning of the word has become essential to the new meaning.
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