tongue vs mother tongue

mother tongue vs tongue

tongue and mother tongue both are nouns.

tongue is a verb but mother tongue is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tongue	Yes	No	Yes	No
mother tongue	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mother tongue is a hyponym of tongue; that is, mother tongue is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tongue:

tongue: a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
mother tongue: one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next

Other hyponyms of tongue include first language, maternal language, tonal language, tone language, creole, American-Indian language, American Indian, American Indian language, Amerind, Amerind language, Amerindian language, Indian, Indian language, Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language, Chukchi, Chukchi language, Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language, Austro-Asiatic, Austro-Asiatic language, Munda-Mon-Khmer, Hmong, Hmong language, Miao, Miao language, Austronesian, Austronesian language, Papuan, Papuan language, Khoisan, Khoisan language, Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Ural-Altaic, Basque, Basque language, Elamite, Elamite language, Elamitic, Elamitic language, Susian, Susian language, Cassite, Cassite language, Kassite, Kassite language, Caucasian, Caucasian language, Dravidian, Dravidian language, Dravidic, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic language, Hamito-Semitic, Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language, Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language, standard language.

tongue (noun)	mother tongue (noun)
the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot	one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
a manner of speaking
the tongue of certain animals used as meat
a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
any long thin projection that is transient

tongue (verb)	mother tongue (verb)
lick or explore with the tongue
articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

Difference between tongue and mother tongue

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