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n. 舌頭；語(yǔ)言
vt. 舔；斥責(zé)；用舌吹
vi. 說(shuō)話；吹管樂(lè)器
n. (Tongue)人名；(英)唐

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詞態(tài)變化

復(fù)數(shù):?tongues;

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tongue，n,舌頭，音“燙”。燙了舌頭，燙了舌頭都是熱湯惹的禍。

中文詞源

tongue 舌頭，語(yǔ)言

來(lái)自古英語(yǔ) tunge,舌頭，來(lái)自 Proto-Germanic*tungon,舌頭，來(lái)自 PIE*tnghwa,舌頭，詞源同 language,lingual.字母 d,l 音變，比較 tear,lachrymose.引申詞義語(yǔ)言。

英文詞源

tongue: tongue: [OE] Tongue is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German zunge, Dutch tong, Swedish tonga, and Danish tonge. These all evolved from a prehistoric Germanic *tunggōn, whose ultimate ancestor was Indo- European *dnghwā-. This also produced Latin lingua ‘tongue, language’ (source of English language, linguistic, etc), Welsh tafod ‘tongue’, Russian jazyk ‘tongue’, etc.
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tongue (n.): Old English tunge "tongue, organ of speech; speech, a people's language," from Proto-Germanic *tungon (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Norse tunga, Old Frisian tunge, Middle Dutch tonghe, Dutch tong, Old High German zunga, German Zunge, Gothic tuggo), from PIE *dnghwa- (cognates: Latin lingua "tongue, speech, language," from Old Latin dingua; Old Irish tenge, Welsh tafod, Lithuanian liezuvis, Old Church Slavonic jezyku).

For substitution of -o- for -u-, see come. The spelling of the ending of the word apparently is a 14c. attempt to indicate proper pronunciation, but the result is "neither etymological nor phonetic, and is only in a very small degree historical" [OED]. In the "knowledge of a foreign language" sense in the Pentecostal miracle, from 1520s. Tongue-tied is first recorded 1520s. To hold (one's) tongue "refrain from speaking" was in Old English. Johnson has tonguepad "A great talker."
tongue (v.): "to touch with the tongue, lick," 1680s, from tongue (n.). Earlier as a verb it meant "drive out by order or reproach" (late 14c.). Related: Tongued; tonguing.