tongue
要点舌、言葉、言葉遣い
意味
- 舌
- (食用の牛などの)舌,タン
- 言葉,言語(language)
- 言葉遣い,言い回し
- 話す能力
- (形・位置・働きが)舌に似たもの
- 細長い岬
- (靴の)舌革,べろ
例文
My tongue is swollen, and I can't taste a thing!
舌が腫れて、味覚がない！
He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
黙ることを知らない者は話し上手ではない。
Would you mind holding your tongue for a while?
少し黙っていてもらえませんか。
語源
古英語tungeから。ラテン語lingua「舌・言語」と同じ祖先。話すための器官「言葉」の意味も。
language・linguistics（言語学）はlinguaから。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English tongue, a late spelling of tong(e), tung(e), from Old English tunge, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā (“tongue”), from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”). Doublet of langue and lingua. Cognates Germanic: West Frisian tonge, Dutch tong, Luxembourgish Zong, German Zunge, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tunge, Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tunga, Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō). Italic: Asturian and Catalan llengua, Aragonese luenga, French langue, Galician, Italian, and Latin lingua, Leonese llingua, Mirandese lhéngua, Portuguese língua, Spanish lengua. Celtic: Irish teanga.