Obs. Forms: 1 þun-, 4 thone-, 5 thun-, (thwn-, tun-), thon-, (thoun-); 1–5 -wong(e, -wang(e. [OE. þunwange, -wǫnge (later also -wang), þunwęnge, f. þun- (:—OTeut. *þunnu-: see THIN) + wang, -e cheek, jaw; lit. ‘thin cheek.’ Cf. OHG. dunwangi, -węngi (MHG. tunewęnge, LG. dunninge, dünninge, dünnege, dunje (Brem. Wbch.); also local G. dünne, dünnung temple, flank), ON. þunnvangi, -vengi (Sw. tinning, Da. tinding).] The temple (of the head).
a. 1000. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 228/7. Dolor timporum, þunwonga sar.
c. 1000. Ælfric’s Voc., ibid., 156/17. Timpus, þunwang.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Judg. iv. 21. ʓelæhte seo wifman an þæra teldsticcena and … ʓesloh þa mid anum bytle bufan his þunwengan.
c. 1325. Gloss. W. de Bibbesw., in Wright, Voc., 146. Les temples, thonewonges.
c. 1350. Nom. Gall.-Angl., 22. Iowe temples et iernoun, Cheke þonewonges and here-liste.
a. 1450. Stockh. Med. MS., ii. 76, in Anglia, XVIII. 295. A playster of betonye … Is good on þe thonwongys for to leye.
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun, 3265. Wham thorgh the thonwonges with a naile at last perced Jael.
1483. Cath. Angl., 387/2. A Thunwange (A. Thwnwynge), tempus.
