tǫng

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tangō (tong). Cognate with Old English tang, tange, Old Frisian tange, tonge, Old Saxon tanga, Old High German zanga.

Noun

tǫng f (genitive tangar, plural tengr or tangir)

  1. smith's tongs

Declension

This noun may either be declined like a regular i-stem noun or as a consonant stem, having i-umlaut in the nominative and accusative plurals.

Descendants

  • Icelandic: töng f
  • Faroese: tong f
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tong f; (dialectal) tøng f
  • Elfdalian: taungg
  • Swedish: tång c
  • Gutnish: tangg
  • Danish: tang c
    • Norwegian Bokmål: tang m or f

Further reading

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