prong

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine.
2. (figuratively, sometimes) A branch; a fork.
3. (colloquial) The penis.

Verb

To pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong.

Conceptos

diente

🦷

punta

horca

nivel

vía

prolongación

horca o picota antigua

Sinónimos

tine

fork

point

tip

spike

tooth

🦷

end

🔚

cog

top

🔝

edge

pike

spine

vertex

pitchfork

prod

barb

peak

apex

prick

broach

piton

pointedness

punch

👊

puncture

quill

rake

ray

riddle

score

shaft

sharpness

shot

spear

spur

stab

stave

sticker

sting

tab

tang

tap

teeth

🦷

thorn

thrust

toe

track

transfix

tusk

wimble

stave in

Traducciones

dent

🦷

dente

🦷

tand

forca

Zacke

rebbio

Zinke

Spitze

gaffel

dent

dens

🦷

δόντι

Zahn

🦷

dent

🦷

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/pɹɒŋ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con lituano: spriñgti

Cognado con letón: sprañgât

Cognado con griego antiguo: σπαργανόω

In summary

From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”), from prangen (“to press, pinch”), from Old Saxon *prangan, from Proto-West Germanic *prangan, from Proto-Germanic *pranganą (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”).
Akin to Lithuanian spriñgti (“to choke, become choked or obstructed”), Latvian sprañgât (“cord, constrict”), Ancient Greek σπαργανόω (sparganóō, “to swaddle”), σπάργανον (spárganon, “swaddling cloth”). See also prank, prance, prink.