Feminine
Zunge
Meaning
- (feminine) tongue (organ in the mouth)
- (feminine) tongue (flap in a shoe)
- (archaic, feminine, metonymically) language
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
langue
lengua
lingua
língua
tong
γλώσσα
lingua
dil
llengua
لسان
ziman
lengaFrequency
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
lälle
Basel-Landschaft
lälli
Basel-Landschaft
zunge
Fribourg
zunga
Fribourg
zunge
Fribourg
zùngi
St. Gallen
lälla
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtsʊŋə/
Etymology
In summary
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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