Zunge

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German zunge, from Old High German zunga, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ; from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (tongue).

Germanic Cognates include Old Saxon tunga, Low German Tung, Old Dutch tunga, Dutch tong, Old English tunge (Modern English tongue), West Frisian tonge, Old Norse tunga (> Swedish tunga, Faroese tunga, Norwegian tunge, Swedish tunga, Danish tunge) and Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō).

Non-Germanic-Cognates with identical meaning include Irish teanga, Welsh tafod, Latin lingua (> Portuguese língua, Spanish lengua, Catalan llengua, French langue, Italian lingua, Romanian limbă), Armenian լեզու (lezu), Lithuanian liežùvis, Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́), Persian زبان (zabân), Proto-Slavic *(j)ęzykъ (> Czech jazyk, Polish język, Russian язы́к (jazýk), Serbo-Croatian јѐзик, Bulgarian ези́к (ezík)).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sʊŋə/
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Noun

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Zunge f (genitive Zunge, plural Zungen, diminutive Zünglein n or Züngelchen n)

  1. tongue (organ in the mouth)
  2. tongue (flap in a shoe)
  3. (archaic) language
    Synonym: Sprache
    Menschen anderer Zungeforeigners (literally, “people of another language”)
    in Zungen redento speak in tongues
    • 1892, Hermann Jellinghaus, Forschungen. Herausgegeben vom Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung. Band V. — Die niederländischen Volksmundarten. Nach den Aufzeichnungen der Niederländer von Hermann Jellinghaus, Diedr. Soltau's Verlag: Norden & Leipzig, p. 17:
      In Zeeländisch-Flandern hat die Gegend von ter Neuze und Aksel am meisten von zeeländischer Zunge beibehalten.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Zunge” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Zunge” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Zunge” in Duden online
  • Zunge on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Hunsrik

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Zunge f

  1. plural of Zung

Pennsylvania German

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Noun

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Zunge

  1. plural of Zung