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Altered spelling of German Dingle.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Tüngler, a habitational name for someone from Tunglen near Oldenburg (Lower Saxony); or alternatively a topographic name for someone living on a tongue-shaped piece of land, f
Altered spelling of German Dingle.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Tüngler, a habitational name for someone from Tunglen near Oldenburg (Lower Saxony); or alternatively a topographic name for someone living on a tongue-shaped piece of land, from Middle Low German tungle ‘tongue’.English : habitational name, possibly from Tingley in West Yorkshire, named from Old English þing ‘meeting’, ‘assembly’ + hlÄw ‘mound’. However, this is a predominantly southern name, associated chiefly with Sussex and Kent, which suggests that a different, unidentified source may be involved.
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English
English : patronymic from Middle English sour ‘sour’, ‘tart’, used as a nickname for a sour-tempered, sharp-tongued person.
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Muslim
Tongue, Language, Defender of mankind
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Norse
In Njal's saga the chieftain of Tongue.
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German
German : habitational name from Bramel near Stade, Lower Saxony.German : nickname for a person with a sharp tongue, from Middle Low German breme, brame, ‘thorn bush’, later ‘horsefly’.English : altered form of Bramhall reflecting the local pronunciation. Compare Brammell.
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Biblical
The mouth of all, or every tongue.
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Chinese
Chinese : variant of Tang 2.Chinese : variant of Tang 3.Chinese : from a modification of the character Zhong (). In the Xia dynasty (2205–1766 bc), there existed a senior adviser whose name was Zhonggu. Much later, in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644 ad), some descendants settled along a river that became known as the Tong Family river. As the Manchus moved southwards, some took up residence by this river and they too adopted Tong as their surname.Chinese : from Lao Tong, the ‘style name’ given to a son of Zhuan Xu, legendary emperor of the 26th century bc. Two of his sons became important advisers to the next emperor, Ku. Some descendants of Lao Tong adopted a character from his style name as their surname.Chinese : see also Dong.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of tongs (Old English tang(e)), or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word (there are examples in Lancashire, Shropshire, and West Yorkshire), from their situation by a fork in a road or river, considered as resembling a pair of tongs.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a tongue of land, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (Old English tunge, Old Norse tunga), for example Tonge in Leicestershire.Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Antonius (see Anthony). It could also be from Dutch tong ‘tongue’ and hence a nickname for a chatterbox or scold, or possibly a shortening of Van Tongeren, a habitational name for someone from Tongeren in the province of Gelderland.
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Norse
Farmed at Tongue.
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English
English : variant spelling of Tong.
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Tamil
The tongue
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English (mainly northern)
English (mainly northern) : habitational name from any of various places so called. Several, in particular those in Hampshire, Kent, and Devon, are named from Old English heorot ‘hart’, ‘stag’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. One in Northumberland has as the second element Old English hlÄw ‘hill’, and one in Cumbria contains Old English clÄ â€˜claw’, in the sense of a tongue of land between two streams, + probably heard ‘hard’. The surname is widely distributed, but most common in Yorkshire, where it arose from a place near Haworth, West Yorkshire, also named with Old English heorot + lÄ“ah. As a Scottish name, it comes from the Cumbrian Hartley (see forebears note).Irish : shortened Anglicized form of or surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó hArtghaile ‘descendant of Artghal’, a personal name composed of the elements Art ‘bear’, ‘hero’ + gal ‘valor’.
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English
English : habitational name from the village of Entwisle in Lancashire, named from Old English henna ‘(water) hen’ or ened ‘duck’ + twisla ‘tongue of land in a river fork’.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in the parish of Halifax, West Yorkshire, so named from an unattested Old English word, scacol ‘tongue of land’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.The British Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) was born in Kilkee, Ireland; his father’s Quaker family came from Yorkshire, England.
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Celtic
The poison tongued.
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Hindu
Tongue, Language, Defender of mankind
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Tamil
Tongue
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English (mainly Lancashire and Cheshire)
English (mainly Lancashire and Cheshire) : unexplained.Probably an altered form of German Dornig, which is probably a nickname for someone with a sharp tongue, from an adjectival derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German dorn ‘thorn’. The suffixes -ig and -ing were often interchanged in Pennsylvania German and elsewhere. The name may also refer to a sloe bush.
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Tamil
Tongue, Language, Defender of mankind
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English
English : from a medieval male personal name (from Latin Hilarius, a derivative of hilaris ‘cheerful’, ‘glad’, from Greek hilaros ‘propitious’, ‘joyful’). The Latin name was chosen by many early Christians to express their joy and hope of salvation, and was borne by several saints, including a 4th-century bishop of Poitiers noted for his vigorous resistance to the Arian heresy, and a 5th-century bishop of Arles. Largely due to veneration of the first of these, the name became popular in France in the forms Hilari and Hilaire, and was brought to England by the Norman conquerors.English : from the much rarer female personal name Eulalie (from Latin Eulalia, from Greek eulalos ‘eloquent’, literally well-speaking, chosen by early Christians as a reference to the gift of tongues), likewise introduced into England by the Normans. A St. Eulalia was crucified at Barcelona in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian and became the patron of that city. In England the name underwent dissimilation of the sequence -l-l- to -l-r- and the unfamiliar initial vowel was also mutilated, so that eventually the name was considered as no more than a feminine form of Hilary (of which the initial aspirate was in any case variable).
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English, Scottish, German, and Dutch
English, Scottish, German, and Dutch : from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch horn ‘horn’, applied in a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made small articles, such as combs, spoons, and window lights, out of horn; as a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a horn-shaped spur of a hill or tongue of land in a bend of a river, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this element (for example, in England, Horne in Surrey on a spur of a hill and Horn in Rutland in a bend of a river); as a nickname, perhaps referring to some feature of a person’s physical appearance, or denoting a cuckolded husband.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.Swedish : ornamental or topographic name from horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : presumably from German Horn ‘horn’, adopted as a surname for reasons that are not clear. It may be purely ornamental, or it may refer to the ram’s horn (Hebrew shofar) blown in the Synagogue during various ceremonies.
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n.
Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums.
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Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
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Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
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That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
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One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip.
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Having a long tongue.
imp. & p. p.
of Tongue
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Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.
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Same as Adder's-tongue.
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A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
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Double-tongued; deceitful.
v. t.
To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
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Having a tongue.
v. t.
To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
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Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
v. i.
To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
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Having no tongue.
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A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.
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A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
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A little tongue.