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Tung

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Lincoln Island.

    "A U.S. military plane intruded into China's air space over the area of Tung Island of the Hsisha Islands in Kwangtung Province between 16:00 hours and 16:03 hours on February 9. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorised, in relation to this military provocation by the U.S. military plane, to issue the 482nd serious warning."

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body. alt-of, obsolete

    "I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, …"

  2. 2
    A tung tree.
  3. 3
    Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tonge, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”); along with Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

Etymology 2

From Chinese 桐 (tóng).

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 東島 /东岛 Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-tao³.

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