tung

Definition

Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body.

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.

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."