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tonguage

noun

Etymology

From tongue + -age modelled after language; or a blend of tongue + language.

  1. inherited from *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s✻
  2. inherited from *tungǭ✻
  3. inherited from *tungā✻
  4. inherited from tunge
  5. inherited from tongue
  6. suffixed as tonguage — “tongue + age”

Definitions

  1. Any activity involving the tongue

    Any activity involving the tongue; tonguing.

  2. Language

    Language; spoken language, as opposed to other forms of language (body language, written language, etc.).

    • Whether the ideas underlying them are expressed and conveyed by eyeage or by tonguage is a detail that matters nothing.
    • I like the French now but can't get on with the Italian tonguage (good word).
    • In all the districts of Maharashtra except Aurangabad and Bhandara, the number of persons who returned Hindi as a subsidiary language outnumber those with Hindi as mother tonguage.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tonguage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA