Reconstruction:Old High German/zungal

Etymology
From, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (gloss on Galatians 4:3). The further etymology is unknown; Pokorny reconstructs a PIE root *dengh- "to shine" just from this Germanic word and a Baltic word for "to seem, to appear" (Lithuanian ). Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology opined that "no doubt", the word was a derivation from Proto-Germanic "lingua", offering the explanation that "the moon and some of the planets, when partially illuminated, do present the appearance of a tongue or sickle" but admits that he knows of no parallel to this in other language and adds the footnote "or was the twinkling of the stars likened to a tingling [züngeln]". The meaning "moon", which is already found in Old Icelandic prose, is secondary, as evidenced by the surviving Icelandic compound himintungl (= Old English heofontungol, Old High German himilzungal, Old Saxon himiltungal) for "star".

Noun

 * 1)  star (astrum, sidus), heavenly body