tǫng

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tong"

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tangō (“tong”). Cognate with Old English tang, tange, Old Frisian tange, tonge, Old Saxon tanga, Old High German zanga.

Noun

tǫng f (genitive tangar, plural tengr or tangir)

1. smith's tongs

Declension

This noun may either be declined like a regular i-stem noun or as a consonant stem, having i-umlaut in the nominative and accusative plurals.

Declension of tǫng (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tǫng	tǫngin	tangir	tangirnar
accusative	tǫng	tǫngina	tangir	tangirnar
dative	tǫng	tǫnginni	tǫngum	tǫngunum
genitive	tangar	tangarinnar	tanga	tanganna

Declension of tǫng (strong consonant stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tǫng	tǫngin	tengr	tengrnar
accusative	tǫng	tǫngina	tengr	tengrnar
dative	tǫng	tǫnginni	tǫngum	tǫngunum
genitive	tangar	tangarinnar	tanga	tanganna

Descendants

• Icelandic: töng f
• Faroese: tong f
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tong f; (dialectal) tøng f
• Elfdalian: taungg
• Swedish: tång c
  • → Finnish: tongit
• Gutnish: tangg
• Danish: tang c
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tang m or f

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “töng”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 446; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

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