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English
Etymology
From tong + -er.
Noun
tonger (plural tongers)
- A tongman.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian thuner, from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz.
Pronunciation
Noun
tonger c (plural tongers)
- thunder
Further reading
- “tonger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011