Zunge

Meaning

1. (feminine) tongue (organ in the mouth)
2. (feminine) tongue (flap in a shoe)
3. (archaic, feminine) language

Concepts

tongue

👅

language

speech

vernacular

lingua

colloquial language

spoken language

talon

voice

tongue-like object

black sole

brain as food

heart as food

kidney as food

liver as food

lung as food

stomach as food

tongue as food

common sole

linguistic communication

Dover sole

tongue

👅

tongue

👅

Mandarin

🍊

tongue

👅

clapper

🎬

Forro

lingual

natural language

offal

Synonyms

Sprache

Lasche

👅

Gemeinsprache

Sprechweise

geschwätzig

Herz

❤️

Hirn

🧠

Leber

loben

Lunge

Magen

Niere

Pickel

Rede

Seezunge

Sprachgebrauch

Sprachunterricht

Stil

verdammt

verflixt

verflucht

verfluchte

Zungenspitze

natürliche Sprache

Fleischabfall

lingual

👅

Mundwerk

Ansprache

Bayerin

Fremdsprache

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

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 *(j)ęzykъ (> Czech jazyk, Polish język, Russian язы́к (jazýk), Serbo-Croatian јѐзик, Bulgarian ези́к (ezík)).