Old English · noun
tang
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /tɑnɡ/[tɑŋɡ]
- Syllables
- tɑnɡ (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- tongs
Meaning
-
tongs
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”)
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