zunga

Kituba

Verb

zunga

1. to surround

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Compare Old Saxon tunga, Old Dutch tunga, Old English tunge, Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō) and Old Norse tunga (Icelandic tunga (“tongue”)).

Noun

zunga f

1. tongue
2. language

Declension

Declension of zunga (feminine n-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	zunga	zungūn
accusative	zungūn	zungūn
genitive	zungūn	zungōno
dative	zungūn	zungōm, zungōn

Descendants

• Middle High German: zunge
  • Alemannic German: Zunge
  • Central Franconian: Zong
  • Cimbrian: zung
  • German: Zunge
  • Luxembourgish: Zong
  • Vilamovian: cung
  • Yiddish: צונג (tsung)

References

• Wright, Joseph (1906), An Old High German Primer‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθunɡa/ [ˈθũŋ.ɡa] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsunɡa/ [ˈsũŋ.ɡa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -unɡa
• Syllabification: zun‧ga

Noun

zunga f (plural zungas)

1. thong (swimwear)

Further reading

• “zunga”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010