tengae

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *tangʷāss (compare Welsh tafod), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt̠ʲeŋ.ɡe/ === Noun === tengae f (genitive tengad, nominative plural tengaid) tongue c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 31b23 language ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Irish: teanga Manx: çhengey Scottish Gaelic: teanga === Mutation === === References === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tengae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language