Editing Tongue (section)

==Etymology==
The word '''tongue''' derives from the [[Old English]] ''tunge'', which comes from [[Proto-Germanic]] *''tungōn''.<ref name="OED">{{cite web | url = http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tongue | title = Tongue | work = Online Etymology Dictionary | access-date = 17 September 2017}}</ref> It has [[cognates]] in other [[Germanic languages]]—for example ''tonge'' in [[West Frisian language|West Frisian]], ''tong'' in [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and [[Afrikaans]], ''Zunge'' in [[German language|German]], ''tunge'' in [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], and ''tunga'' in [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Faroese language|Faroese]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]]. The ''ue'' ending of the word seems to be a fourteenth-century attempt to show "proper pronunciation", but it is "neither etymological nor phonetic".<ref name="OED"/> Some used the spelling ''tunge'' and ''tonge'' as late as the sixteenth century.