root of the nail
root of the nail, Poll. 2.145 (pl.), cf. Paul.Aeg. 6.85:—in Ruf. Onom. 85, ῥιζ-νύχια, τά; but -ίαι Id. ap. Orib. 25.1.32.
The corpus record
ῥιζ-ωνῠχία
rizonuchia · ἡ
root of the nail
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.