Meaning

noun a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

noun a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

noun any long thin projection that is transient

originFrom Middle English tongue, a late spelling of tong(e), tung(e), from Old English tunge, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā (“tongue”), from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”). Cognate with Dutch tong (“tongue”), German Zunge (“tongue”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tunge (“tongue”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tunga (“tongue”),…

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