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tung¹

Where it comes from

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.

noun tungs · tongue

  1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body. I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, …

tung²

Where it comes from

From Chinese 桐 (tóng).

noun tungs · tongue

  1. A tung tree.

Tung³

Where it comes from

From Mandarin 東島 /东岛 Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-tao³.

proper noun

  1. Synonym of Lincoln Island. A U.S. military plane intruded into China's air space over the area of Tung Island of the Hsisha Islands in Kwangtung Province between 16:00 hours and 16:03 hours on February 9. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorised, in relation to this military provocation by the U.S. mili

    Similar: Lincoln Island

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Closest in meaning: tung tree, aleurites fordii, tung-oil tree, executive, owner, hole, tong, cave, unrehearsed, causeway, shantung, east, swimming, bronze, hsiang, eastbound

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noun tung tree

Русскийтунг tung, ту́нговое де́рево túngovoje dérevo

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@misc{tung_2026,
  title = {tung},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tung},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}