lingua

Latin

noun
Definitions
  • tongue
  • a speech
  • an utterance or expression
  • a language
  • a dialect, idiom or mode of speech
  • (poetic) voice, note, song, bark etc.
  • a kind of plant (alternatively called m
  • the reed of the Roman tibiae
  • a small amount of something, e.g. "a tongue of land" or "a spoonful"
  • the short arm of a lever

Etymology

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

Emoji
👅 😋 😛 😜 😝 🤑

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms