Zunge

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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 *(j)ęzykъ (> Czech jazyk, Polish język, Russian язы́к (jazýk), Serbo-Croatian јѐзик, Bulgarian ези́к (ezík)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sʊŋə/
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Noun

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 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:
      In Zeeländisch-Flandern hat die Gegend von ter Neuze und Aksel am meisten von zeeländischer Zunge beibehalten.
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Declension

Declension of Zunge
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Zunge die Zungen
genitive einer der Zunge der Zungen
dative einer der Zunge den Zungen
accusative eine die Zunge die Zungen

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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Pronunciation

Noun

Zunge f

  1. plural of Zung

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Zunge

  1. plural of Zung
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