tong
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English tange, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”).
Noun[edit]
tong (plural tongs)
- An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
- 1998, Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity, page 232:
- […] these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs in some lists: in order to make a tong one needs a tong, and how could the first tong be made without a tong?
- 1998, Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz (editors), Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity, page 232:
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Verb[edit]
tong (third-person singular simple present tongs, present participle tonging, simple past and past participle tonged)
- (intransitive) To use tongs.
- (transitive) To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
tong (plural tongs)
- A Chinese secret society or gang.
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Chuukese[edit]
Noun[edit]
tong
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch tonge, from Old Dutch tunga, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
Noun[edit]
tong f (plural tongen, diminutive tongetje n)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
tong m (plural tongen, diminutive tongetje n)
- A kind of flatfish, the common sole, Solea solea.
Malay[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Chinese 桶. Related to tahang.
Noun[edit]
tong (plural tong-tong, third person possessive tongnya)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
tong (plural tong-tong, third person possessive tongnya)
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
tong
- Nonstandard spelling of tōng.
- Nonstandard spelling of tóng.
- Nonstandard spelling of tǒng.
- Nonstandard spelling of tòng.
Usage notes[edit]
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tong f (definite singular tonga, indefinite plural tenger, definite plural tengene)
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- tang (Bokmål)
References[edit]
- “tong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Westrobothnian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse þungr, from Proto-Germanic *þunguz, akin to Proto-Slavic *tęžьkъ (compare Serbo-Croatian težak) and Lithuanian tingus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tong (neuter tongt, plural tōng, comparative töynger, superlative töyngst)
- Heavy.
- hä jär för mykkjä tongt ― it is much too heavy
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- English terms derived from Cantonese
- Chuukese lemmas
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- nl:Organs
- nl:Fish
- Malay terms derived from Chinese
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
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- nn:Tools
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