γλῶσσα

• γλάσσᾰ (glássă) — Ionic
• γλῶττᾰ (glôttă) — Attic

From Proto-Hellenic *glṓťťā; further etymology uncertain. Per Beekes, perhaps originally “provided with a point”, equivalent to γλῶχες (glôkhes, “beard of corn”) +‎ -ια (-ia), from Proto-Indo-European *glṓgʰs ~ *gl̥gʰós (“point”) (assuming cognacy with Proto-Slavic *glogъ (“thorn, hawthorn”), but the connection is disputed).^[1] Alternatively, related to Proto-Germanic *tulgaz (“tongue”), a poetic word, from a different Proto-Indo-European root noun *dlṓgʰs ~ *dl̥gʰós; compare γλυκύς (glukús) for the phonetics.^[2] Or, possibly related to Albanian gjuhë (“tongue”),^[3] but the irregular correspondence would point to a substrate language. Compare also Proto-Slavic *golgolъ (“utterance, speech”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *galsás (“voice; sound”) and Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”).

γλῶσσᾰ • (glôssă) f (genitive γλώσσης); first declension (Ionic, Koine)

1. (anatomy) the tongue
   • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.489
2. a language
   • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.804
3. anything shaped like the tongue
   1. (music) the mouthpiece of a pipe
   2. the tongue or thong of leather, shoe-latchet
   3. the tongue of land
   4. ingot
   5. (divination) a marking on the liver

• “γλῶσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γλῶσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “γλῶσσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γλῶσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• γλῶσσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• γλῶσσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “γλῶσσα”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1100 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brogue idem, page 100.
  • dialect idem, page 222.
  • language idem, page 475.
  • mouthpiece idem, page 544.
  • speech idem, page 800.
  • taste idem, page 856.
  • tongue idem, page 880.
  • utterance idem, page 941.