unlla

• uña

From Old Galician-Portuguese unlla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ungula. Cognate with Portuguese unha and Spanish uña.

• IPA^(key): /ˈunʎa̝/

unlla f (plural unllas)

1. nail, fingernail, toenail
2. hoof

   Synonym: pezuño

3. spoor (of an animal)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “unlla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “unlla”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “unlla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “unlla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “uña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈũ.ʎa/

unlla f (plural unllas)

1. alternative form of unna
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 225 (facsimile):

     el a coçar fillouſſe non catou al ſe ñ qñdo / lle ſayu per ſo a unlla aquel poçon tã lixoſo.

     he began scratching and didn’t see any other thing when under his nail went out that dirty venom.

• Galician: unlla