þunwange

• þunwænġe, þunwenġe, þunwenċġe
• þunwonge, þunwunge

From Proto-West Germanic *þuniwang(ij)ā, equivalent to þynne +‎ wange. Cognate with Old High German dunwengi, Old Norse þunnvangi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθunˌwɑn.ɡe/, [ˈθunˌwɑŋ.ɡe]

þunwange f

1. temple (region of the skull)

Though þunwange has the form of a feminine noun, it is commonly declined as weak by analogy to the usually weak neuter wange.

Weak:

• þunwang

• Middle English: thunwange, thonwonge

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “þunwang”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Alan Campbell (1962), chapter XI, in Old English Grammar‎^[1], Oxford, Clarendon Press, B, page 249, §618