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Tong Tongue
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ TONG  id+ | INSTRUMENT TO LIFT or GRASP
^u            primarily FOOD |
     note TONGS  TONGUE LIKE for
          DEVICES or DEVISE FOR LIFTING or
          SEIZING WITH LONG PIVOTED ARMS
          sp PINZA PINCETA from
          TO PINCH or GRASP
~ TONGUE  from obscure Germanic TUNGA
          sp LENGUA as in
  see> LANGUAGE
  sug> LINGUAL
  note LINGO  IDIOM  SPEECH
  sug> CATAGLOTTISM
  biol> TONGUE may denote
        A PROJECTION OF A BODY PART
  mostly ORAL TONGUE
  also  ARTICULATION OF TWO PARTS as in
        TONGUE AND GROOVE
  myth> BEFORE BECOMING A KING
        CADMUS WAS THE COOK FOR
  THE KING OF SIDON
  A RELATION THAT UNITES
        LANGUAGE with GASTRONOMY as in
  ukr YIZHA = FOOD
      YEZYK   TONGUE and LANGUAGE
  ply> | TALKING EATING AND KISSING CAN LINGER AS
         TONGUES OF LINGUAL PLEASURE |
  hx> IT IS SAID THAT PLATO [#] POINTED OUT
      SIMILARITIES BETWEEN RETHORIC AND CUISINE   sug> ORATORY
  remarkably both are MORE POPULAR AMONG THOSE    sug> ELOCUTION
             WHO SPEAK ROMANCE LANGUAGES THAN     sug> GOURMAND
  AMONG THOSE SPEAKING NORDIC TONGUES             sug> GASTRONOME
  med> IN MAN AS IN OTHER MAMMALS THE TONGUE IS   sug> GULLET
        AN ORGAN TO GRASP AND TASTE FOOD          sug> SAVOR
  it is A MUSCULAR ORGAN ATTACHED TO              sug> MIMIC
       THE FLOOR OF THE MOUTH and ORAL CAVITY     sug> MIME
  ITS FUNCTIONS INCLUDE TASTE                     sug> FLAVOR
  COORDINATION OF SWALLOWING AND IN HUMANS        sug> GULLIBLE
  ARTICULATION OF SPEECH                          sug> EMOTE
  ukr MOVA   = TONGUE also LANGUAGE <see          sug> MOTION
  sp  MUDO     MUTE       <see> MUTATE            sug> MUTINY
  lat LINGUA   TONGUE                             sug> LINGO
  sp  LENGUA   LANGUAGE or ORAL TONGUE            sug> GLOSS
  lat LINGULA  TONGUE LIKE                        sug> GLOSSARY
  for PHONETICS or                                sug> PARLANCE
      DIALECT or SPEECH                           sug> JARGON
  ply> | LINGUISTICS SEEKS TO GRASP A TONGUE WITH A TONG | <sug
  sug>   CONVERGE  CONVERSE  VERB  LANGUAGE  LOGOS  VOICE  WORD 
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