köken: Inherited from Middle French griffe, either deverbal from griffer, which see, or through an unattested Old French noun from Old High German grif, from Proto-Germanic *gripiz.
coup de griffe
Les pattes de cet animal sont armées de griffes.
Il a beau n’avoir pas mis son nom à cet ouvrage, il y a mis sa griffe.
İspanyolca[“◌”], arañar, comillas f pl [«◌»], garra, or ‘◌’, quirouña /aɾaˈɲaɾ/
to scratch
çekim: geçmiş arañé · ortaç arañado · şimdiki araña
köken: Uncertain. Possibly derived from arar (“to plough”), from Latin arāre, with the sense taken from that of making shallow furrows or grooves. Alternatively, linked to araña (“spider”) from Latin arānea, though a semantic link is difficult; perhaps the meaning stemmed from the spider being an aggressive animal, to that of fighting or quarreling, and later a secondary sense of "scratch" developed as…
köken: From Byzantine Greek νύχιν (núkhin), inherited from Ancient Greek ὀνύχιον (onúkhion), diminutive of ὄνυξ (ónux), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃negʰ-.
köken: First attested in the Gugeupbang eonhae (救急方諺解 / 구급방언해), 1466, as Middle Korean 밠톱 (Yale: pal-s-thwop). From 발 (bal) + 톱 (top, also found in 손톱 (sontop, “fingernail”)).
to scratch (to rub a surface with a sharp object) · to scratch (to cause damage to some surface, e.g. one's skin, by sliding something over it) · to scratch, to irritate (to cause or induce displeasure or irritation)
çekim: geçmiş drapano · şimdiki drapie
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *der-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *dírāˀtei Proto-Slavic *dьrati Proto-Slavic *-pati Proto-Slavic *drāpàti Old Polish drapać Polish drapać Inherited from Old Polish drapać.
köken: From *glara, possibly from German Kralle, following metathesis, or alternatively possibly a substratum word; another theory is that it perhaps derives from a hypothetical intermediate *înghiare, from a Vulgar Latin root *unglaris < *ungularis, from Latin ungula.