γλῶσσα

Etymology
From ; further etymology. Per Beekes, perhaps originally “provided with a point”, equivalent to, from  (assuming cognacy with 🇨🇬, but the connection is disputed). Alternatively, related to 🇨🇬, a poetic word, from a different root noun ; compare  for the phonetics.

Noun

 * 1)  The tongue.
 * 2)  A language.
 * 3) Anything shaped like the tongue:
 * 4)  The mouthpiece of a pipe.
 * 5)  The tongue or thong of leather, shoe-latchet.
 * 6)  The tongue of land.
 * 7)  Ingot.
 * 8)  The marking on the liver.

Descendants

 * Inherited
 * Borrowed
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