Where does “Lung” come from?

Lung (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German lunge, from Old Saxon lunga, from Proto-Germanic lungô, from Proto-Indo-European lengʷʰ- — light, agile, nimble; light, not heavy, agile,...

Lung (Plautdietsch): lung

Definitions

  1. lung

Ancestry of “Lung”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanlunge—
2Old Saxonlunga—
3Proto-Germaniclungôlung
4Proto-Indo-Europeanlengʷʰ-light, agile, nimble; light, not heavy, agile,...

Words derived from “Lung”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European lengʷʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic lungô →Every word from Old Saxon lunga →
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