Noun: tunge
Gender: Feminine, Masculine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | tunge |
| Pl. | tunger; tungar |
Definite
| Sg. | tunga; tungen |
| Pl. | tungene; tungane |
Sample Sentences
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Menneske kan smaka med tunga. (Humans can taste with their tongue.)
Nouns inflected like tunge
gummijolle,
grønske,
blodprøve,
livbøye,
synagoge,
felle,
maske,
byste,
herme,
tunge,
jolle,
klage,
kolle,
krise,
pinse,
åre,
ile,
reile,
sjuke,
lysbøye, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Norse tunga f, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ f (“tongue”), from an N-stem variant of earlier Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s f (“tongue”).
2. Nordic cognates include Icelandic, Faroese, Norn, and Swedish tunga, Danish tunge, Elfdalian tungga. Other Germanic cognates include English tongue, West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, German Zunge, and Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō).
3. Indo-European cognates include Armenian լեզու (lezu), Irish teanga, Latin lingua, Lithuanian liežuvis, Northern Kurdish ziman, Persian زبان, Polish język, Russian язык (jazyk), Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā), Tocharian A käntu, Tocharian B kantwo, Welsh tafod. See: Old Norse Nouns '
tunga', Swedish Nouns '
tunga', Danish Nouns '
tunge', English Nouns '
tongue', Dutch Nouns '
tong', German Nouns '
Zunge', Gothic Nouns '
𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉', Irish Nouns '
teanga', Latin Nouns '
lingua', Polish Nouns '
język', Russian Nouns '
язык'.
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