Lung Definition
- As loudly as one's voice will allow.
- in one's loudest voice
Other Word Forms of Lung
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Lung
Origin of Lung
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From Middle English, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lungw- (“the light organ"), from Proto-Indo-European *lengÊ·Ê°- (“not heavy, agile, nimble"); cf. *h₁lengÊ·Ê°-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (lÑ‘gkoe) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (ἐlafrós) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge"). Compare Latin levis and Old English lÄ“oht (Modern English light). See also lights ("lungs").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English lunge from Old English lungen lungs legwh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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