tǫng
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tong"
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *tangō (“tong”). Cognate with Old English tang, tange, Old Frisian tange, tonge, Old Saxon tanga, Old High German zanga.
Noun edit
tǫng f (genitive tangar, plural tengr or tangir)
Declension edit
This noun may either be declined like a regular i-stem noun or as a consonant stem, having i-umlaut in the nominative and accusative plurals.
Declension of tǫng (strong i-stem)
Declension of tǫng (strong consonant stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: töng f
- Faroese: tong f
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tong f; (dialectal) tøng f
- Elfdalian: taungg
- Swedish: tång c
- → Finnish: tongit
- Gutnish: tangg
- Danish: tang c
- Norwegian Bokmål: tang m or f
References edit
- töng in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.