tung
/tˈʌŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tung tree.
name
Example Sentences
- "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 ..."
- "If they've got anything to say which they want you to hear, let 'em say it out; if not, hold their tungs."
- "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."
Etymology
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.