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tunge

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Danish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Danish tungæ, Old Norse tunga, Proto-Germanic *tungǭ, cognate with English tongue, German Zunge, Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō). The Germanic word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”), cf. Latin lingua, Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́).

Noun

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tunge c (singular definite tungen, plural indefinite tunger)

  1. (anatomy) tongue
  2. sole (fish)
  3. (poetic) language
    • 1856, Frederik E. Schiern, Historiske studier, page 86:
      Men da ei Grunden blev tilstrækkelig / For Folkets Antal, drog de over til / Det sorte Bjerg, ja til det hvide Land, / Hvor, skjult bag ved en evig Muur af Iis, / Et andet Folk med anden Tunge taler.
      But when the place was insufficient / For the numbers of the people, they went to / The black mountain, yes, to the white land, / Where, hidden behind an eternal wall of ice, / Another people in another tongue speaks.
    • 2014, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:
      Deres høvding havde talt til ham i hans eget folks sprog og forklaret mange ting, som det var vanskeligt at udtrykke i en anden tunge.
      Their chief had spoken to him in his own [not the chief's] people's language and explained many things that would have been difficult to express in another tongue.
Inflection
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Declension of tunge
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tunge tungen tunger tungerne
genitive tunges tungens tungers tungernes

Etymology 2

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See tung (“heavy”).

Adjective

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tunge

  1. definite of tung
  2. plural of tung

Finnish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtuŋːe/, [ˈt̪uŋːe̞]
  • Rhymes: -uŋːe
  • Syllabification(key): tun‧ge

Verb

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tunge

  1. inflection of tunkea:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

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Middle English

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Noun

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tunge

  1. Alternative form of tonge (“tongue”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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tunge

  1. definite singular of tung
  2. plural of tung

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse tunga.

Noun

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tunge f or m (definite singular tunga or tungen, indefinite plural tunger, definite plural tungene)

  1. a tongue
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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utstrekt mennesketunge
 
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fisken tunge (Solea solea)

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 Armenian լեզու (lezu), Irish teanga, Latin lingua, Lithuanian liežuvis, Northern Kurdish ziman, Persian زبان, Polish język, Russian язык (jazyk), Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā), Tocharian A käntu, Tocharian B kantwo, Welsh tafod.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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tunge f (definite singular tunga, indefinite plural tunger, definite plural tungene)

  1. (anatomy) a tongue
    Menneske kan smaka med tunga.
    Humans can taste with their tongue.
  2. (metonymically) a language; speech
  3. (metonymically) a voice
  4. (religion, often in the plural) glossolalia
  5. something which resembles a tongue
    1. a flame
    2. a tongue in a swallowtail flag
    3. a tongue in a shoe
      Synonym: pløse
    4. (poetic) bladepoint; tip of a spear, sword, lance or other
  6. (zoology) Dover sole fish (Solea solea)
    Synonyms: tungeflyndre, sjøtunge, skosole
  7. (rail transport) points (Britain, Ireland, Australia, India); switch (US) (the part of the railway switch that actually moves)
  8. (fishing) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse þungi, from the adjective tung (“heavy”) (Old Norse þungr).

Noun

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tunge m (definite singular tungen, indefinite plural tungar, definite plural tungane)

  1. heaviness, weight
  2. pressure
  3. sleepiness
  4. (in the definite singular) most, the majority

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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tunge

  1. definite singular of tung
  2. plural of tung

References

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  • “tunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “tunge” in The Ordnett Dictionary
  • Confer with (Norwegian Bokmål) “tunge_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *tungā.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtun.ɡe/, [ˈtuŋ.ɡe]

Noun

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tunge f

  1. a tongue
  2. a language
    Synonym: ġeþēode

Declension

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Declension of tunge (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative tunge tungan
accusative tungan tungan
genitive tungan tungena
dative tungan tungum

Descendants

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Old Frisian

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ.

Noun

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tunge f

  1. tongue
  2. language

Inflection

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Declension of tunge, tunga

(feminine n-stem)

singular plural
nominative tunge, tunga tunga
genitive tunga tungana, tungena
dative tunga tungum, tungem
accusative tunga tunga

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Swedish

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Adjective

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tunge

  1. definite natural masculine singular of tung
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