tung
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A tung tree.
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Variante di tongueobsoletoObsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body.
I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, …
… ever exposed to their envy, and the tung of slander …
Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung.
… 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 ...
Etimologia
From Middle English tonge, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”); along with Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
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A tung tree.
Etimologia
From Chinese 桐 (tóng).
Forme
- plurale
- tungs