Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A narrow strip of material, typically leather, used to fasten, bind, or secure objects. · An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour. · An item of clothing, usually an undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more. · The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.
From Middle English thong, thwong, thwang, from Old English þwong, þwang (“thong, band, strap, cord, strip of leather; phylactery”), from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz, *þwanguz (“coercion, constraint, band, clamp, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to squeeze, press, pressure”). Cognate with Scots thwang, thwayng, thang (“thong”), Middle Low German dwenge (“clamp, jaws, steel-trap”), German Zwinge (“vise, clamp”), Danish tvinge (“clamp”), dialectal Norwegian tveng (“shoestrap, shoelace”), Swedish tving (“clamp”), Icelandic þvengur (“strap, thong, latchet”).
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- Inherited-form mentionthongenm
- Inherited-form mentionþwongang
- Inherited-form mention*þwangigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*þwangizgem-pro
- Derivation mention*twenk-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionthwangsco
- Cognate mentiondwengegml
- Cognate mentionZwingede
- Cognate mentiontvingeda
- Cognate mentiontvengno
- Cognate mentiontvingsv
- Cognate mentionþvenguris
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