lingua

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (declension-1, feminine, literally) the tongue
2. (declension-1, feminine, metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
3. (declension-1, feminine, metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
4. (declension-1, feminine, metonymically, obsolete) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
5. (declension-1, feminine, metonymically, poetic) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
6. (declension-1, feminine, metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
7. (declension-1, feminine, metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
8. (declension-1, feminine) tongue-shaped things:
9. (declension-1, feminine) tongue-shaped things:
10. (declension-1, feminine) tongue-shaped things:
11. (declension-1, feminine) tongue-shaped things:
12. (declension-1, feminine) tongue-shaped things:
13. (declension-1, feminine) tongue-shaped things:
14. (declension-1, feminine) tongue-shaped things:

Sinonieme

oratio

sermo

ōrātiō

sermō

Vertalings

langue

👅

lingua

👅

lengua

👅

Sprache

llengua

👅

língua

👅

language

γλώσσα

tongue

👅

Zunge

👅

ziman

dil

taal

tong

👅

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈlɪŋ.ɡʷa]

Etimologie (Engels)

From older dingua (attested as a rare word in Gaius Marius Victorinus), from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. The change of d- to l- is variously explained by a borrowing from another Italic language with such a shift and/or by a folk-etymological association with the verb lingō (“to lick”); compare Old Armenian լեզու (lezu) and Lithuanian liežùvis for the latter process. Other cognates include German Zunge and English tongue.