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Zunge.

tongue (organ in the mouth)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈt͡sʊŋə/
  1. tongue (organ in the mouth)

    feminine
  2. tongue (flap in a shoe)

    feminine
  3. language

    archaic · feminine · metonymically
    Menschen anderer Zunge
    in Zungen reden
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Germanic *tungǭ Proto-West Germanic *tungā Old High German zunga Middle High German zunge German Zunge From Middle High German zunge, from Old High German zunga, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ; from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”). Germanic Cognates include Old Saxon tunga, Low German Tung, Old Dutch tunga, Dutch tong, Old English tunge (Modern English tongue), West Frisian tonge, Old Norse tunga (> Swedish tunga, Faroese tunga, Norwegian tunge, Swedish tunga, Danish tunge) and Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō). Non-Germanic-Cognates with identical meaning include Irish teanga, Welsh tafod, Latin lingua (> Portuguese língua, Spanish lengua, Catalan llengua, French langue, Italian lingua, Romanian limbă), Armenian լեզու (lezu), Lithuanian liežùvis, Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́), Persian زبان (zabân), Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ (> Czech jazyk, Polish język, Russian язы́к (jazýk), Serbo-Croatian јѐзик, Bulgarian ези́к (ezík)).

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