tongueとは

別の表記

• tounge (廃れた用法, now considered a misspelling); tung (informal/eye 方言); tong, tonge, toong, toongue, toung, toungue, tunge (all 廃れた用法)

語源

From Middle English tonge, tunge, tung, from 古期英語 tunge, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”) (compare West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, German Zunge, Danish tunge, Norwegian Bokmål tunge, Swedish tunga), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (compare Irish teanga, Latin lingua, Tocharian A/B käntu/kantwo, Lithuanian liežùvis, Polish język 'language, tongue', Armenian լեզու (lezu), Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́)).

発音

• (Received 発音, 米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /tʌŋ/
• (英国発音, Northern) IPA^(key): /tʊŋ/
• (英国発音, Manchester) IPA^(key): /tɒŋɡ/, /tʊŋɡ/
• 韻: -ʌŋ

名詞

tongue (複数形 tongues)

1. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
2. Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
3. (metonymically) A language.

   He was speaking in his native tongue.

   The poem was written in her native tongue.

4. The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
   • Dryden

     parrots imitating human tongue

5. (obsolete) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
   • L'Estrange

     Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

6. (obsolete) Honourable discourse; eulogy.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honour.

7. (religion, often in the 複数形) Glossolalia.
8. In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot, so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth.
9. Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
10. A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.

    the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance

11. A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 12:

      On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water.

12. The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
13. The clapper of a bell.
14. (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter XI, in The Time Machine:

      Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

15. A small sole (type of fish).
16. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
17. (music) A reed.

同意語

• (language): language, lingo (口語)

動詞

tongue (三人称単数 現在形 tongues, 現在分詞 tonguing, 過去形および過去分詞形 tongued)

1. (music, transitive, intransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).

   Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.

2. (slang) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex.
3. To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.

   a soil horizon that tongues into clay

4. To join by means of a tongue and groove.

   to tongue boards together

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

6. (transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
   • Shakespeare

     such stuff as madmen tongue

7. (transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.
   • Shakespeare

     How might she tongue me.

派生語

参照

• tongue on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• tounge