[ˈtˢɔŋə]
OprindelseFrom Old Danish tungæ, Old Norse tunga, Proto-Germanic *tungǭ, cognate with English tongue, German Zunge, Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō). The Germanic word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”), cf. Latin lingua, Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́).
- common-gendertongue
- common-gendersole (fish)
- common-gender, poeticlanguage
“Men da ei Grunden blev tilstrækkelig / For Folkets Antal, drog de over til / Det sorte Bjerg, ja til det hvide Land, / Hvor, skjult bag ved en evig Muur af Iis, / Et andet Folk med anden Tunge taler.” — But when the place was insufficient / For the numbers of the people, they went to / The black mountain, yes, to the white land, / Where, hidden behind an eternal wall of ice, / Another people in anoth
“Deres høvding havde talt til ham i hans eget folks sprog og forklaret mange ting, som det var vanskeligt at udtrykke i en anden tunge.” — Their chief had spoken to him in his own [not the chief's] people's language and explained many things that would have been difficult to express in another tongue.
- definite, form-ofdefinite of tung
- form-of, pluralplural of tung
Formertungen(definite, singular) · tunger(indefinite, plural) · tunge(indefinite, nominative, singular) · tungen(definite, nominative, singular) · tunger(indefinite, nominative, plural) · tungerne(definite, nominative, plural) · tunges(genitive, indefinite, singular) · tungens(definite, genitive, singular) · tungers(genitive, indefinite, plural) · tungernes(definite, genitive, plural)