tongue (body part) elongated object 5 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language English
Lexeme 1 tongue
Lexeme 2 flexible muscular organ in the mouth
Meaning 1 tongue (body part)
Direction
Meaning 2 long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake; in a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot

I caught a glimpse of a brown boot, the tongue flapping, the sole tied on with string [1990, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Age of Iron‎[10], New York: Random House, page 96]

On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water. [1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 12]


Reference OED English Wiktionary
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language Estonian
Lexeme keel
Meaning 1 tongue (body part)
Direction
Meaning 2 salient part, ledge

Neem ulatub kitsa keelena kaugele merre. Mägedest voolab alla suure liustiku keel. Sooja õhu keel ulatub kaugele põhja.


The cape stretches far into the sea like a narrow tongue. The tongue of a large glacier flows down from the mountains. A tongue of warm air extends far north.

Reference EKSS
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language Lak
Lexeme maz
Meaning 1 tongue
Meaning 2 brow (mountain)
Reference
Comment (Murzaev 1974: 130)
ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language Russian
Lexeme язык
Meaning 1 tongue (body part)
Direction
Meaning 2 salient part, ledge

Язык пламени. Язык ледника

Reference BTS
Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language Swahili
Lexeme ulimi
Meaning 1 tongue
Meaning 2 a tongue like object ulimi wa moto, ulimi wa mlingoti
flame tongue; the thin tip of the mast
Reference
Comment Polikanov