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tung.

A tung tree.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A tung tree.

Where this word comes from

From Chinese 桐 (tóng).

noun
  1. Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body.

    alt-of · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Middle English tonge, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”); along with Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.