*tunglą

Runic: ᛏᚢᚾᚷᛚᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈtuŋ.ɡlɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

  1. luminary, orb
  2. heavenly body, star

Etymology

Of unclear origin. Usually connected to *tungǭ (‘tongue’), though the putative semantic links (either the crescent moon resembling a tongue, or the twinkling of the stars bringing to mind the lolling and darting of someone's tongue) are rather speculative and tenuous, and appear to lack semantic parallels in other languages. An alternative theory deriving the word from Proto-Indo-European *dʰn̥ǵʰ- (‘covering, overcast’) (whence Proto-Balto-Slavic *dangāˀ) is semantically more attractive but formally impossible.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.tunglątunglō
Acc.tunglątunglō
Gen.tunglas, tunglistunglǫ̂
Dat.tunglaitunglamaz
Inst.tunglōtunglamiz
Voc.tunglątunglō

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Descendants

  • *tungl (Proto-West Germanic)
    • tungol (Old English)
      • tungol (Middle English)
      • heofontungol (Old English)
  • *tungl (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *zungal (Old High German)
      • himilzungal (Old High German)
  • *tungl (Proto-West Germanic)
    • tungal (Old Saxon)
      • hevantungal, himiltungal (Old Saxon)
  • tungl (Old Norse)
    • tunggel (Elfdalian)
    • tungl (Faroese)
    • tungl (Icelandic)
  • tungl (Old Norse)
    • tungel (Old Swedish)
      • (dated, dialectal) tungel (Swedish)
  • 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌻 (tuggl) (Gothic)

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