/²tʊŋːə/
OpphavFrom Old Norse tunga f, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ f (“tongue”), from an N-stem variant of earlier Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s f (“tongue”).
Nordic cognates include Icelandic, Faroese, Norn, and Swedish tunga, Danish tunge, Elfdalian tungga. Other Germanic cognates include English tongue, West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, German Zunge, and Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō).
Indo-European cognates include Armenian լեզու (lezu), Irish teanga, Latin lingua, Lithuanian liežuvis, Northern Kurdish ziman, Persian زبان, Polish język, Russian язык (jazyk), Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā), Tocharian A käntu, Tocharian B kantwo, Welsh tafod.
- femininea tongue
“Menneske kan smaka med tunga.” — Humans can taste with their tongue.
- feminine, metonymicallya language; speech
- feminine, metonymicallya voice
- feminine, in-plural, oftenglossolalia
- femininea flame
- femininea tongue in a swallowtail flag
- femininea tongue in a shoe
- feminine, poeticbladepoint; tip of a spear, sword, lance or other
- feminineDover sole fish (Solea solea)
- femininepoints (Britain, Ireland, Australia, India); switch (US) (the part of the railway switch that actually moves)
- feminine, masculineheaviness, weight
- masculinepressure
- masculinesleepiness
- masculinemost, the majority
- definite, form-of, singulardefinite singular of tung
- form-of, pluralplural of tung
Formertunga(definite, singular) · tunger(indefinite, plural) · tungene(definite, plural) · tunga(alternative) · tungen(definite, singular) · tungar(indefinite, plural) · tungane(definite, plural)