lung – English noun declension

English noun forms of lung

Noun: lung
Singularlung
Plurallungs

Sample Sentences

  • I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
  • Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.] [1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 123:]

Etymology

From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphrós, “light in weight”) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light). See also lights (“lungs”). Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”). See: Middle English Nouns 'lunge', Old English Nouns 'lungen', Dutch Nouns 'long', German Nouns 'Lunge', Swedish Nouns 'lunga', Icelandic Nouns 'lunga', Russian Nouns 'лёгкое', Latin Nouns 'levis'.

Verbs referencing "lung"

German Nouns Lunge, Danish Nouns lunge, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns lunge, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns lunge, Faroese Nouns lunga, Icelandic Nouns lunga, Russian Nouns лёгкое.