hundes tunge
Old English
Etymology
From hundes (“dog's”) + tunge (“tongue”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxun.des ˈtun.ɡe/, [ˈhun.des ˈtuŋ.ɡe]
Noun
hundes tunge n
Descendants
- Middle English: houndestonge, hundes tunga, hundestunge, hundestounge, houndystonge, hundystonge, howndystonge
- English: hound's tongue, houndstongue
- Scots: hoond's tongue
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hundes tunge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.