Meaning: tongue

Represented in 157 languages with 8 cognate sets.

Illustrative Context

He stuck his tongue out.

Target Sense

  • The basic term for the tongue as a part of the human body.
  • The lexeme selected must be applicable to the human tongue. (It may, and in many languages does apply also to the tongues of animals.)
  • The literal term for the physical body part. Avoid different terms specific to the sense of taste, to language, and to figurative senses such as somebody's way of speaking (e.g. ‘sharp tongue’).
  • Avoid more technical anatomical or medical terms, if different.

Cognate sets for meaning: tongue

Id <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. form&nbsp;</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. lang.&nbsp;</span> # clades # lexemes loan? pll loan? pll deriv.? ideoph.? loan src lang. src lex cogset. Details

Lexeme Details

Language Lexeme Phonetic Phonemic Cognate set loan? pll loan? Source lang