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"ref": "c. 1225, Dialogue on Vices and Virtues",
"text": "he ðe is godes wisdom, ðurh hwam bieð alle wittes and ælle wisdomes and alle tungen spekinde, he lai alswa ðat child ðe nan god ne cann, ne speken ne mai, ne isien, ne him seluen wealden, ðurh hwam alle earen ȝehiereð, and alle menn hem seluen welden, and alle eiȝene isieð.",
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"A device for extinguishing candles."
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"ipa": "/ˈtɔːnɡ(ə)/"
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"text": "he ðe is godes wisdom, ðurh hwam bieð alle wittes and ælle wisdomes and alle tungen spekinde, he lai alswa ðat child ðe nan god ne cann, ne speken ne mai, ne isien, ne him seluen wealden, ðurh hwam alle earen ȝehiereð, and alle menn hem seluen welden, and alle eiȝene isieð.",
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"ref": "a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFrom Old English tang, tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō. Reinforced by Old Norse tangi.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tonges",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "tongen",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "nouns",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "tonge",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"pl": "tonges",
"pl2": "tongen"
},
"expansion": "tonge (plural tonges or tongen)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"enm:Surgery"
],
"glosses": [
"A pair of tongs:",
"A forceps (surgical tongs)"
],
"links": [
[
"pair",
"pair"
],
[
"tong",
"tong"
],
[
"surgery",
"surgery"
],
[
"forceps",
"forceps"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"A pair of tongs:",
"(surgery) A forceps (surgical tongs)"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences",
"surgery"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A pair of tongs:",
"A device for extinguishing candles."
],
"links": [
[
"pair",
"pair"
],
[
"tong",
"tong"
],
[
"device",
"device"
],
[
"extinguishing",
"extinguishing"
],
[
"candle",
"candle"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The tang of a blade."
],
"links": [
[
"tang",
"tang"
],
[
"blade",
"blade"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A fang (long, sharp tooth)"
],
"links": [
[
"fang",
"fang"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"tang (sharp flavour)"
],
"links": [
[
"tang",
"tang"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) tang (sharp flavour)"
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɔnɡ(ə)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɔːnɡ(ə)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtanɡ(ə)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtaːnɡ(ə)/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tang"
},
{
"word": "tange"
},
{
"word": "tongge"
},
{
"word": "toonge"
},
{
"word": "tounge"
}
],
"word": "tonge"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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