doppelzüngig
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]doppel- + Zunge + -ig, perhaps a calque of Latin bilinguis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈdɔpl̩ˌt͡sʏŋɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔpl̩ˌt͡sʏŋɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: dop‧pel‧zün‧gig
Adjective
[edit]doppelzüngig (strong nominative masculine singular doppelzüngiger, comparative doppelzüngiger, superlative am doppelzüngigsten)
- duplicitous, double-tongued
- 2021 February 14, Christiane Müller-Lobeck, “Arabischer Frühling: Eigentümlich ironiefrei”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN:
- An Personal fährt er einen folternden, schmierigen Geheimdienstmajor auf, etwas holzschnittartig gezeichnet gerade in seinen doppelzüngigsten Momenten.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (obsolete) bilingual
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “doppelzüngig” in Duden online
- “doppelzüngig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “doppelzüngig” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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