en tunga

tunga in a sentence

• De skatter som förvärvas genom falsk tunga, de äro en försvinnande dunst och hasta till döden.
  The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. (Proverbs 21:6 – old bible translation with archaic language)

Expressions

• hålla tungan rätt i mun
  mind one's p's and q's

Words built with tunga

• rödtunga witch

Questions

Origin

From Old Swedish tunga, from Old Norse tunga, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Nearby common words

tunga is number 1,545 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 1,541city downtown area
• 1,542förmåga power, ability
• 1,543djävul fiend, devil
• 1,544desto all the (desto bättre, all the better)
• 1,546vittna witness, show
• 1,547passera pass (by), strain
• 1,548råna rob
• 1,549uppmärksamhet attention