Wiktionary

lunge

See also: Lunge and lungë

English edit

WOTD – 12 February 2007

Alternative forms edit

 
A tennis player lunging for the ball.
 
An airman performing a lunge.

Etymology edit

From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /lʌnd͡ʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌnd͡ʒ

Noun edit

lunge (plural lunges)

  1. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
    • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC‎[1]:
      A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.
  2. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
  3. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
  4. A fish, the namaycush.

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Translations edit

long rope — see lunge line
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Verb edit

lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
    I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
    • 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork:
      With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
  2. (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

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Etymology edit

From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”).

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Noun edit

lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)

  1. (anatomy) lung

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Declension of lunge
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lunge lungen lunger lungerne
genitive lunges lungens lungers lungernes

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lunge

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of lungi

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.

Noun edit

lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)

  1. (anatomy) a lung

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.

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lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)

  1. (anatomy) a lung

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