Zunge

== German == === Etymology === 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 *ęzykъ (> Czech jazyk, Polish język, Russian язы́к (jazýk), Serbo-Croatian јѐзик, Bulgarian ези́к (ezík)). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt͡sʊŋə/ Hyphenation: Zun‧ge === Noun === Zunge f (genitive Zunge, plural Zungen, diminutive Zünglein n or Züngelchen n) tongue (organ in the mouth) tongue (flap in a shoe) (archaic, metonymic) language Synonym: Sprache Menschen anderer Zunge ― foreigners (literally, “people of another language”) in Zungen reden ― to 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: ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== (Compounds) Zungenblüte, Zungenbrecher, Zungenfehler, zungenförmig, Zungenkuss, Zungenlaut, Zungen-R, Zungenspitzen-R, Zungenrückenlaut, Zungenschlag, Zungenspitze, Zungenspitzenlaut, Zungenwurzel ==== Related terms ==== Züngelchen -züngig Zünglein === Further reading === “Zunge”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Zunge” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Zunge” in Duden online Zunge on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de == Hunsrik == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt͡suŋə/ Rhymes: -uŋə Syllabification: Zun‧ge === Noun === Zunge f plural of Zung == Pennsylvania German == === Noun === Zunge plural of Zung