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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish tungel (“celestial body”), from Old Norse tungl (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *tunglą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ-. Compare Old English tungol.
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tungel n
- (dialectal) moon
1873, Samuel Westhius, “Adelskaps härkompst”, in Samlade vitterhetsarbeten af svenska författare från Stjernhjelm till Dalin, page 7:Sool, stiernor, tungel och planeter the uthvijsa, […]- Sun, stars, moon and planets they show,
1927, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Hösthorn: dikter, page 111:Det snörvlar ett grymt, det brånar ett skri,
det är som en fläkt ur en djungel,
där under elektriska tungel
sin kättja natten släppt fri.- There is a grunting snarl, there is a shriek,
it is like a wind out of a jungle,
there under electric moon
his chain the night set free.
1931, Karl-Erik Forsslund, Med Dalälven från källorna till havet, volume Tredje delen Söder Dalälven, Tredje boken Sundborn, page 187:Så stort som Tunglet är vid Jul, så stort är löfvet vid Ersmässan- As big as the moon is at Christmas, so big are the leaves at
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