lung
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish lunge, Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphrós, “light in weight”) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light). See also lights (“lungs”). Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lung (plural lungs)
- (anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
- (in the plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
- He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
- That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 123:
- Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.]
SynonymsEdit
- (organ): (in the plural) bellows (informal or archaic), (in the plural) lights (of an animal, used as food)
Derived termsEdit
- aqualung
- bagpipe lung
- biolung
- bird breeder's lung
- bird fancier's lung
- black lung
- book lung
- brown lung
- flock worker's lung
- green lung
- heart-lung machine
- interstitial lung disease
- iron lung
- Labrador lung
- leather-lunged
- lung buster
- lung-busting
- lung butter
- lung cancer
- lung capacity
- lung dart
- lungedness
- lunger
- lung fever
- lung fields
- lungfish
- lung flower
- lungful
- lung-grown
- lungless
- lunglessness
- lung lichen
- lunglike
- lung power
- lung sac
- lung sick
- lung toilet
- lung volume
- lungworm
- lungwort
- mahogany lung
- midlung
- miller's lung
- nonlung
- pigeon fancier's lung
- popcorn lung
- smoker's lung
- woodworker's lung
- wouldn't work in an iron lung
TranslationsEdit
organ that extracts oxygen from the air
| |||||||||||
See alsoEdit
AromanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin longus. Compare Romanian lung.
AdjectiveEdit
lung m (feminine lunghe, masculine plural lundz, feminine plural lundzi)
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
DrungEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *luŋ.
NounEdit
lung
ReferencesEdit
Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung[1], Santa Barbara: University of California
IndonesianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
NounEdit
lung (first-person possessive lungku, second-person possessive lungmu, third-person possessive lungnya)
Etymology 2Edit
Inherited from Malay [Term?], from Hokkien [Term?] 籠／笼 (láng, lâng, lông, lóng, “bamboo container”).
NounEdit
lung (first-person possessive lungku, second-person possessive lungmu, third-person possessive lungnya)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
lung (first-person possessive lungku, second-person possessive lungmu, third-person possessive lungnya)
- alternative spelling of long (“large firecracker”).
Further readingEdit
- “lung” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
LashiEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
lung
ReferencesEdit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Old FrenchEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lung m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lunge)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of long
DeclensionEdit
Declension of lung
Derived termsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the Latin longus (“long”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lung m or n (feminine singular lungă, plural lungi)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of lung
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Romani: lùngo
See alsoEdit
RomanschEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lung m (feminine singular lunga, masculine plural lungs, feminine plural lungas)
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
- (of thought) very hard
AdjectiveEdit
lung
- (only in compounds) loose
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms