Noun: tonge
| Sg. | tonge |
| Pl. | tonges; tongen |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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he ðe is godes wisdom, ðurh hwam bieð alle wittes and ælle wisdomes and alle tungen spekinde, he lai alswa ðat child ðe nan god ne cann, ne speken ne mai, ne isien, ne him seluen wealden, ðurh hwam alle earen ȝehiereð, and alle menn hem seluen welden, and alle eiȝene isieð. (He that is God’s wisdom, through whom be all wits and all wisdoms and all speaking languages, he lay as the child that knows no good, nor can speak, nor see, nor control himself, through whom all ears hear, and all men control themselves, and all eyes see.) [c. 1225, Dialogue on Vices and Virtues:]
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The title of the hundrid and eiȝtthe ſalm. To victorye, the ſalm of Dauid. / God, holde thou not ſtille my preiſyng; for the mouth of the ſynner, and the mouth of the gileful man is openyd on me. / Thei ſpaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpaſſiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouȝten ayens me with out cauſe. (The title of the one hundred and eighth psalm: "To Victory; the Psalm of David". / God; don't hold still my praising, as the mouths of the sinners and the mouths of the guilty have opened against me. / They spoke against me with a guilty tongue, they acted against me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without justification.) [a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible:]
Nouns inflected like tonge
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. See: Old English Nouns '
tunge'.
Verbs referencing "tonge"
English Nouns
tong, English Nouns
tung.
Translations