tung
English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Middle English tung, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”). Liken Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
Noun
tung (plural tungs)
- Obsolete spelling of tongue
- 1848, Jonathan Morgan, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Digitized edition, SH Colesworthy, published 2008, page 215:
- … words to be spoken with the understanding, that I may teach others also, than myriads of words, in a tung. ... In the law, it hath been written, That, with other tungs and other lips I will speak to this people, and then they will not hear ...
- 2002 Fall, Richard Whelan, quoting Melvil Dewey, “The American Spelling Reform Movement”, in Verbatim, The Language Quarterly, volume XXVII, number 4, ISSN 0162–0932 Invalid ISSN, OCLC 265962060, page 5:
- English has strength, simplicity, conciseness, capacity for taking words freely from other tungs, and best of all has the greatest literature the world has yet produced.
References
- Webster's 1828 Dictionary, tung
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Supplement, Vol. XII, Page 1387, tung, tungd
Derived terms
Translations
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse þungr, from Proto-Germanic *þunguz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔnɡ/, [tˢɔŋˀ]
Inflection
Inflection of tung | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Common singular | tung | tungere | tungest2 |
Neuter singular | tungt | tungere | tungest2 |
Plural | tunge | tungere | tungest2 |
Definite attributive1 | tunge | tungere | tungeste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tunɡ/, [tuŋɡ]
Noun
tung (plural tunges or tungen)
- (anatomy) tongue
- A tongue-shaped thing.
- language, speech, wording
- c. 1225, Dialogue on Vices and Virtues:
- he ðe is godes wisdom, ðurh hwam bieð alle wittes and ælle wisdomes and alle tungen spekinde, he lai alswa ðat child ðe nan god ne cann, ne speken ne mai, ne isien, ne him seluen wealden, ðurh hwam alle earen ȝehiereð, and alle menn hem seluen welden, and alle eiȝene isieð.
- He that is God’s wisdom, through whom be all wits and all wisdoms and all speaking languages, he lay as the child that knows no good, nor can speak, nor see, nor control himself, through whom all ears hear, and all men control themselves, and all eyes see.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- The title of the hundrid and eiȝtthe ſalm. To victorye, the ſalm of Dauid. / God, holde thou not ſtille my preiſyng; for the mouth of the ſynner, and the mouth of the gileful man is openyd on me. / Thei ſpaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpassiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouȝten ayens me with out cauſe.
- The title of the one hundred and eighth psalm: "To Victory; the Psalm of David". / God; don't hold still my praising, as the mouths of the sinners and the mouths of the guilty have opened against me. / They spoke against me with a guilty tongue, they acted against me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without justification.
- c. 1225, Dialogue on Vices and Virtues:
Derived terms
References
- “tǒng(e (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse þungr, from Proto-Germanic *þunguz.
Adjective
tung (neuter singular tungt, definite singular and plural tunge, comparative tyngre or tungere, indefinite superlative tyngst or tungest, definite superlative tyngste or tungeste)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse þungr, from Proto-Germanic *þunguz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʊŋː/ (example of pronunciation)
Adjective
tung (masculine and feminine tung, neuter tungt, definite singular and plural tunge, comparative tyngre, indefinite superlative tyngst, definite superlative tyngste)
Derived terms
Old High German
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse þungr, from Proto-Germanic *þunguz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɵŋ/
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Adjective
Declension
Inflection of tung | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | tung | tyngre | tyngst |
Neuter singular | tungt | tyngre | tyngst |
Plural | tunga | tyngre | tyngst |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | tunge | tyngre | tyngste |
All | tunga | tyngre | tyngsta |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. |
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [tʊwŋ͡m˧˧]