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teanga

Irish

Noun

teanga f ‎(genitive singular teanga, nominative plural teangacha)

(anatomy) tongue
language

Declension

Declension of teanga

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	teanga	teangacha
Vocative	a theanga	a theangacha
Genitive	teanga	teangacha
Dative	teanga	teangacha

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an teanga	na teangacha
Genitive	na teanga	na dteangacha
Dative	leis an teanga don teanga	leis na teangacha

Derived terms

Terms derived from teanga

alt teanga ‎(“tongue joint”)
aonteangach ‎(“monolingual, unilingual”)
aonteangach m ‎(“monoglot”)
athneartú teanga ‎(“language revitalization”)
bacainn teanga ‎(“language barrier”)
bac teanga ‎(“language handicap”)
barra teanga ‎(“language bar”)
beartas teanga ‎(“language policy”)
bualadh teanga ‎(“actinomycosis”)
cinnteachas teanga ‎(“linguistic determinism”)
cód teanga ‎(“language code”)
coibhneasacht teanga ‎(“linguistic relativity”)
comhstruchtúr teanga ‎(“language construct”)
comhtheanga ‎(“common language”)
creimeadh teanga ‎(“language attrition”)
cumas teanga ‎(“language ability”)
damhtheanga ‎(“oxtongue”)
drochtheanga ‎(“bad language”)
feidhmiúchán teanga ‎(“linguistic performance”)
feidhmiú teanga ‎(“linguistic performance”)
foghlaim teanga ‎(“language learning”)
forás teanga ‎(“language development”)
forbairt teanga ‎(“language development, language growth”)
ginchumas teanga ‎(“language production”)
grúpa teangacha ‎(“language group”)
idirtheanga ‎(“interlanguage”)
inniúlacht teanga ‎(“linguistic competence, language competence”)
iompú teanga ‎(“language shift”)
lus na teanga ‎(“adder’s-tongue”)
maolteanga ‎(“stammer, stutter”)
máthairtheanga ‎(“mother tongue”)
meaisínteanga ‎(“machine language”)
meititheanga ‎(“metalanguage”)
mianach sealbhaithe teanga ‎(“language acquisition device”)
micritheanga ‎(“microlanguage”)
mionlach teanga ‎(“linguistic minority”)
mionteanga ‎(“minority language”)
neamhord teanga ‎(“language disorder”)
nuatheanga ‎(“modern language”)

pleanáil teanga ‎(“language planning”)
polasaí teanga ‎(“language policy”)
réim teanga ‎(“linguistic register”)
rolladh teanga ‎(“tongue rolling”)
sainréim teanga ‎(“register”)
saotharlann teanga ‎(“language laboratory”)
sealbhú teanga ‎(“language acquisition”)
spadal teanga ‎(“tongue depressor”)
sprioctheanga ‎(“object language, target language”)
téacs go teanga ‎(“text-to-speech”)
teanga agus eitre ‎(“tongue and groove”)
teanga aidhme ‎(“object language”)
teanga amhairc ‎(“visual language”)
teanga an bhúcla ‎(“tongue of belt”)
teanga an duine ‎(“human language”)
teanga an phobail ‎(“vernacular”)
teanga ardleibhéil ‎(“high-level language”)
teanga chait ‎(“sole; hornwrack”)
teangach ‎(“tongued; lingual; wordy, loquacious”)
teanga choiteann ‎(“vernacular”)
teanga chomharthaíochta ‎(“sign language”)
teanga chon ‎(“hound’s tongue”)
teangachruthach ‎(“tongue-shaped, linguiform”)
teanga chumtha ‎(“constructed language”)
teanga dhíolama ‎(“assembly language”)
teanga dhomhanda ‎(“world language”)
teanga dhúchais ‎(“vernacular”)
teanga fhileata ‎(“poetic language”)
teanga fhógrach ‎(“declarative language”)
teanga fhoinseach ‎(“source language”)
teanga fhoirmiúil ‎(“formal language”)
teanga fia ‎(“hart’s-tongue fern”)
teanga ghlacach ‎(“receptive language”)
teanga ghnásúil ‎(“procedural language”)
teanga iarratais ‎(“query language”)
teanga iasachta ‎(“foreign language”)
teanga idirmheánach ‎(“intermediate language”)
teanga idirnáisiúnta chúnta ‎(“international auxiliary language”)

teangaigh ‎(“to tongue”)
teanga i mbaol ‎(“endangered language”)
teanga inbhreisithe ‎(“extensible language”)
teanga ionramhála sonraí ‎(“data manipulation language”)
teangaire ‎(“interpreter”)
teanga íseal-leibhéil ‎(“low-level language”)
teangaithe ‎(“tongued”)
teanga labhartha ‎(“spoken language”)
teanga logánta ‎(“vernacular”)
teanga mhadra rua ‎(“hart’s-tongue fern”)
teanga mharcála ‎(“markup language”)
teanga mheaisín ‎(“machine language”)
teanga mhín ‎(“white dead-nettle”)
teanga mhionlaigh ‎(“minority language”)
teanga na coitiantachta ‎(“vernacular”)
teanga nádúrtha ‎(“natural language”)
teanga na háite ‎(“vernacular”)
teanga na huimhríochta ‎(“language of arithmetic”)
teanga náisiúnta ‎(“national language”)
teanga na n-orduithe ‎(“command language”)
teanga nós imeachta ‎(“procedural language”)
teanga oifigiúil ‎(“official language”)
teanga rialaithe jabanna ‎(“job control language”)
teanga ríomhaireachta ‎(“computer language”)
teanga ríomhaire ‎(“computer language”)
teanga ríomhchlárúcháin ‎(“programming language”)
teanga scriptithe ‎(“scripting language”)
teanga shaorga ‎(“artificial language”)
teanga shintéiseach ‎(“synthetic language”)
teanga shiombalach ‎(“symbolic language”)
teanga thrasfhoirmiúcháin ‎(“transformation language”)
teanga thuairiscithe leathanach ‎(“page description language”)
teangeolaí ‎(“linguist”)
teangeolaíocht ‎(“linguistics”)
teangóg ‎(“ligule”)
teangúil ‎(“lingual”)
teorainn teangacha ‎(“linguistic boundary”)
truailliú teanga ‎(“language pollution”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
teanga	theanga	dteanga
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"teanga" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“tengae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tengae, from Proto-Celtic *tangʷāt-, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s ‎(“tongue, speech, language”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰʲɛŋɡə/

Noun

teanga f ‎(genitive singular teangaidh, plural teangan)

(anatomy) tongue
(linguistics) language

Usage notes

The dative form is teangaidh.

Synonyms

(language): cànan

Derived terms

Terms derived from teanga

air bàrr teangaidh ‎(“on the tip of one's tongue”)
air teangaidh ‎(“by heart”)

eadar-theangachadh ‎(“translation”)
eadar-theangaich ‎(“translate”)

eadar-theangair ‎(“translator”)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
“tengae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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teanga

teanga

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