tunga
Old Swedish
noun
Definitions
- tongue
- speech, language
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse tunga (tongue) inherited from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (tongue, language, speech).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*tungǭ
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
- *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Indo-European
- *tungǭ Proto-Germanic
- hundtunga Swedish
- sjötunga Swedish
- tunga Swedish
- tungomål Swedish
- växeltunga Swedish
- tunge Norwegian Nynorsk
- tung Old English
- tunga Old Norse
- tunga Icelandic
- zunga Old High German
- tunga Faroese
- 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 Gothic
- *tungā gmw-pro
- tunga Old Dutch
- tōng Westrobothnian
- tunge Old Frisian
- tungæ Old Danish