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(declension-1, feminine, literally) the tongue
(declension-1, feminine, metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
(declension-1, feminine, metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
(declension-1, feminine, metonymically, obsolete) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
(declension-1, feminine, metonymically, poetic) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
(declension-1, feminine, metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
(declension-1, feminine, metonymically) a tongue, utterance, language, speech
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[ˈlɪŋ.ɡʷa]

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.