langue
French
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) tongue
- (linguistics) language system of communication using written or spoken words
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French langue inherited from Old French langue inherited from Latin lingua (tongue, speech, language) inherited from Old Latin dingua (tongue) inherited from Proto-Italic *denɣwā (tongue) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (tongue, language, speech).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
Gloss
tongue, language, speech
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
語
Emoji
👅 😋 😛 😜 😝 🤑
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Langue nouvelle English
- langue English
- langued English
- lingo English
- lingua English
- linguiform English
- linguist English
- *linguaticum Latin
- *linguāticum Latin
- bilinguis Latin
- dingua Latin
- lingua Latin
- linguax Latin
- lingula Latin
- linguālis Latin
- Engelszunge German
- Linguist German
- Ochsenzunge German
- Seezunge German
- Vorderzungenvokal German
- Zunge German
- Zungenbein German
- Zungenbrecher German
- Zungenkuss German
- Zungenlaut German
- Zungenreden German
- Zungenspitze German
- doppelzüngig German
- linguistisch German
- scharfzüngig German
- lingua Italian
- idéolangue French
- languette French
- lingot French
- multilingue French
- protolangue French
- lengua Spanish, Castilian
- *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Indo-European
- lingvist Norwegian Bokmål
- antilíngua Portuguese
- linguarudo Portuguese
- língua Portuguese
- *tungǭ Proto-Germanic
- lingvist Norwegian Nynorsk
- जिह्वा Sanskrit
- lingvist Danish
- *(j)ęzykъ Proto-Slavic
- *ęzykъ Proto-Slavic
- langue Old French
- languete Old French
- lango Esperanto
- langrompilo Esperanto
- lingvo Esperanto
- ज़बान Hindi
- lingua Galician
- limbă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- забон Persian
- زبان Persian
- زوان Persian
- zunga Old High German
- լեզու Old Armenian
- langue Norman
- langue Middle French
- אינטרלינגואה Hebrew (modern)
- lingua Old Portuguese
- *tangʷāss Proto-Celtic
- *tangʷāt- Proto-Celtic
- *ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáHs Proto-Indo-Iranian
- limbã Aromanian
- langue Slovak
- lenga Occitan
- *denɣwā Proto-Italic
- glianga Romansh
- laungia Romansh
- lengua Romansh
- leua Romansh
- lieunga Romansh
- lingua Romansh
- llingua Asturian
- lenghe Friulian
- lengua Old Occitan
- زبان Urdu
- lengua Old Spanish
- lingua Sicilian
- ŠNA Middle Persian
- rêziman Northern Kurdish
- ziman Northern Kurdish
- zimankuj Northern Kurdish
- zimanmalbat Northern Kurdish
- zimannas Northern Kurdish
- zimanê fransî Northern Kurdish
- łéngua Venetian
- *inźūˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *inźūˀkas, *inźūˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- léngoa Ligurian
- lingua Ladino
- לינגוה Ladino
- *hižwáH Proto-Iranian
- *hižwáHkaH Proto-Iranian
- lang Haitian, Haitian Creole
- lingua Kabuverdianu
- lalang Mauritian Creole
- linwe Walloon
- langue Bourguignon
- limba Sardinian
- lengua Neapolitan
- lèngua Istriot
- 𐬵𐬌𐬰𐬎𐬎𐬁 Avestan
- *dingua Old Latin
- dingua Old Latin
- luenga Aragonese
- ژبه Pashto, Pushto
- lalang Seychellois Creole
- lingu Guinea-Bissau Creole
- lingua Guinea-Bissau Creole
- lhéngua Mirandese
- ǰhip Kalasha
- lenga Franco-Provençal
- zıwan Zazaki
- langue Picard
- lingue Picard
- *käntwo Proto-Tocharian
- lengua Lombard
- lenga Piedmontese
- زَبان Kashmiri
- limbĕ Istro-Romanian
- 𐌚𐌀𐌍𐌂𐌅𐌀𐌌 Oscan
- 𐌚𐌀𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌀 Oscan
- جیب Torwali
- luenga Extremaduran
- зивок Yagnobi
- زوان Bakhtiari