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Yes, I tried to make a similar point earlier. Here is an excerpt from Hamilton (2006, p. 91), The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts:

"While *waw- may have stemmed from an archaic noun that is now lost, the morphology of this letter name makes me suspicious that it may have  been  an  ad  hoc  creation.  On  the  one  hand,  *waw-  is  an archaic formation inasmuch as it violates a basic rule of West Semitic phonology, that almost all initial-w words became first-y (Bauer and Leander 1922: 229m-q; HALOT 1: 257).91 A West Semitic cognate noun should  have  the  form  *yaw  or  *yô.  The  often-cited  cognate, wawîm/n  in  Biblical  and  Mishnaic  Hebrew  and  Jewish  Aramaic,  is thus  suspect  on  phonological  grounds.  Although  that  noun  is  trans- lated  “hooks,  pins,  or  pegs”  (BDB  255)  or  “nails,  pegs”  (HALOT  I: 259),  all  biblical  occurrences  stem  from  one  context  in  Exodus:  the hooks  from  which  the  curtains  are  suspended  in  the  'ohel  mô'eµd (HALOT I: 259). That meaning correlates closely with shapes of the letter waw at any time after its head begins in late second millennium B.C.  scripts. It seems  more  likely,  therefore,  that  the  rarely  attested noun  *waw-  was  generated  from  this  letter’s  name  (and  developed shape) and not vice versa (similarly, Hallo 2004: 286; cf. delta in Greek and delet in Jer 36:23 [BDB, 195]). The only information that wawîm/n communicates is that the Masoretes pointed it as a *qal- and not *qall- nominal form. On the  other  hand,  one  may  find  no  etymology  for *waw- because it may have been an early ad hoc creation on the pat- tern of acrophonic consonant-vowel or diphthong-same consonant, as in  mêm/mîm  (and  nûn  in  most  languages). Rhyming with  taµw  may have also played a part in this possible creation, which must be dated" "to  the  second  millennium  B.C.  because  of  the  lengthened  derivative"

The anachronistic "nail" interpretation is also favored by various Christian groups because it turns the Tetragrammaton into a prophecy of the crucifixion (i.e., YHWH = "hand -- Praise! -- nail -- Praise!"