*tungǭ

Runic: ᛏᚢᚾᚷᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈtuŋ.ɡɔ̃ː/

noun · feminine · ōn-stem

Meanings

tongue
speech, language

Etymology

N-stem variant of Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (‘tongue’). Cognate with Latin lingua (‘idem’) and Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́) (jihvā́, ‘idem’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	tungǭ	tungōniz
Acc.	tungōnų	tungōnunz
Gen.	tungōniz	tungōnǫ̂
Dat.	tungōni	tungōmaz
Inst.	tungōnē	tungōmiz
Voc.	tungǭ	tungōniz

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Descendants

*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- tunga (Old Dutch)
  - tonge, tonghe (Middle Dutch)
    - tóng (Limburgish)
*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- tunga (Old Dutch)
  - tonge, tonghe (Middle Dutch)
    - tong (Dutch)
      - tong (Afrikaans)
      - tunk (Skepi Creole Dutch)
*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- tunga (Old Dutch)
  - tonge, tonghe (Middle Dutch)
    - tong (Dutch)
      - tong, toṅ, tung (Negerhollands)
        
        ton (Virgin Islands Creole)
*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- tunga (Old Dutch)
  - tonge, tonghe (Middle Dutch)
    - tong (Dutch)
      - tongo (Sranan Tongo)
        
        tongo (Aukan)
        
        tongo (Kwinti)
        
        tongò (Saramaccan)
*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- tunge (Old English)
  - tonge, tong, tung, tunge (Middle English)
    - tung, tongue, tong (Scots)
*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- tunge (Old English)
  - tonge, tong, tung, tunge (Middle English)
    - tongue, tounge, tung, tong, tonge, toong, toongue, toung, toungue, tunge (English)
      - tang (Australian Kriol)
      - tang (Bislama)
      - tongo (Sranan Tongo)
      - tang (Tok Pisin)
      - tang (Torres Strait Creole)
*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- tunge (Old Frisian)
  - tonge, tunge (North Frisian)
  - Tunge (Saterland Frisian)
  - tonge (West Frisian)
*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- zunga (Old High German)
  - zunge (Middle High German)
    - Zunge (Alemannic German)
    - Zong (Central Franconian)
    - zung (Cimbrian)
    - Zunge (German)
    - Zong (Luxembourgish)
    - cung (Vilamovian)
    - צונג (tsung) (Yiddish)
*tungā (Proto-West Germanic)
- tunga, tunge (Old Saxon)
  - tunge (Middle Low German)
    - Tunge (German Low German)
    - Tung (Plautdietsch)
tunga (Old Norse)
- tungga (Elfdalian)
- tunga (Faroese)
- tungge, tunggå, tungga (Gutnish)
- tunga (Icelandic)
- tunga (Norn)
- tunge (Norwegian)
tunga (Old Norse)
- tungæ (Old Danish)
  - tunge (Danish)
tunga (Old Norse)
- tunga (Old Swedish)
  - tunga (Swedish)
𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō) (Gothic)

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