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tunge

Pronunciation: /²tʊŋːə/

“tunge” is a Norwegian Nynorsk word. Its 15 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a tongue
  2. a language; speech
  3. a voice
  4. glossolalia
  5. a flame
  6. a tongue in a swallowtail flag
  7. a tongue in a shoe
  8. bladepoint; tip of a spear, sword, lance or other
  9. Dover sole fish (Solea solea)
  10. points (Britain, Ireland, Australia, India); switch (US) (the part of the railway switch that actually moves)
  11. part of a seine sticking outward, used to connect the net to a buoy near land.
  12. heaviness, weight
  13. pressure
  14. sleepiness
  15. most, the majority

Etymology

From Old Norse tunga f, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ f (“tongue”), from an N-stem variant of earlier Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s f (“tongue”). Nordic cognates include Icelandic, Faroese, Norn, and Swedish tunga, Danish tunge, Elfdalian tungga. Other Germanic cognates include English tongue, West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, German Zunge, and Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō). Indo-European cognates include…

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