lang

Derived terms

 * artlang
 * conlang
 * engelang
 * jokelang
 * loglang
 * memelang

Adjective

 * 1)  long

Usage notes

 * "Lang" was still used for "long" in several northern English dialects at the time of the Survey of English Dialects, but it is now virtually extinct.

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) long
 * 2) tall, high

Etymology
From, from , cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The adjective goes back to, , which is also the source of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) long (having great distance)

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) long
 * 2) tall
 * 3) long (time), lengthy, a long time
 * 1) tall
 * 2) long (time), lengthy, a long time
 * 1) long (time), lengthy, a long time
 * 1) long (time), lengthy, a long time

Adverb

 * 1)  by far

Adverb

 * 1)  already

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) long; lengthy in space or time
 * 2)  tall
 * 3)  many indicating the length of the time in total
 * 1)  many indicating the length of the time in total
 * 1)  many indicating the length of the time in total

Adverb

 * 1) long, sprawled, stretched physically
 * 1) long, sprawled, stretched physically
 * 1) long, sprawled, stretched physically

Postposition

 * 1) for temporal

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A language.
 * 2) A tongue.

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) long

Etymology 2
From, probably from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) tiered table

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) long

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A yarn.

Etymology
From ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 laːŋ¹, 🇨🇬 [Nancowry] and 🇨🇬 kʰlaːˀŋ. .

Noun

 * 1) eagle Any of several large carnivorous birds in the family Accipitridae

Adverb

 * 1) just; only; merely

Noun

 * 1) water

Adjective

 * 1) long
 * 2) tall

Etymology
From. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) long (of physical length)
 * 2) long (of duration)
 * 1) long (of duration)

Numeral

 * 1)  hundred

Etymology
From, from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and outside of Germanic, with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) long
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Iċ onġiete þæt iċ þē hæbbe āþrotenne mid þȳ langan spelle.


 * 1) * preface to the , manuscript E
 * "ang"

- Bretene īeġland is eahta hund mīla lang and twā hund brād.


 * 1) * late 9th century, Old English Martyrology
 * "ang"

- Þonne blōtmōnaþ ġeendaþ, þonne biþ sēo niht sixtīene tīda lang and sē dæġ eahta tīda.


 * 1) * , Manuscript A, year 893
 * "ang"

- Sē wudu is ēastlang and westlang hundtwelftiġes mīla lang oþþe lengra and þrītiġes mīla brād.


 * 1) * late 9th century, Old English Martyrology
 * "ang"

- On þā swīðran healfe þām ingange is stǣnen bedd seofon fōta lang and þrim mundum hīere þonne þæs hūses flōr.


 * 1) * late 9th century, anonymous translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Ne wēne iċ, nū iċ lang spell hæbbe tō seċġenne, þæt iċ hīe on þisse bēċ ġeendian mæġe, ac iċ ōðre onġinnan sċeal.


 * 1) * c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
 * "ang"

- Hē ǣt þā and dranc and eft wearþ on slǣpe, ac sē enġel hine āwreahte ōðre sīðe and cwæþ, "Ārīs hraðe and et. Þū hæfst swīðe langne weġ."


 * 1) * , Manuscript A, year 897
 * "ang"

- Þā hēt Ælfrēd cyning timbran langsċipu onġēan þā æscas. Þā wǣron fulnēah twā swā lang swā þā ōðru. Sumu hæfdon sixtiġ āra, sumu mā. Þā wǣron ǣġðer ġe swiftran ġe unwealtran ġe ēac hīeran þonne þā ōðru; nǣron nāwðer ne on Frīsisċ ġesċeapen ne on Denisċ, ac swā him selfum þūhte þæt hīe nytwierðest bēon meahten.


 * 1) * c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
 * "ang"

- Ān nama is þissum ġelīċe on ġeendunge and nā on andġiete: hic senior ("þēs ealda mann oþþe ealdor"). Þā ōðre sind ealle mǣst werlīċes cynnes (hic doctor "þēs lārēow," hic salīnātor "þēs sealtere"), and ealle unlīchamlīċe (hic furor "þēos hātheortnes," horror "ōga," labor "ġeswinc," sūdor "swāt," pallor "blācung," pudor "sċamu," decor "wlite," calor "hǣtu," fervor "wielm," rubor "rēadnes oþþe sċamu," algor "ċiele"), and ealle þās and ōðre þyslīċe habbaþ langne ō on ġebīeġedum fiellum.


 * 1) tall
 * 2) * c. 1000, unknown author, Vercelli Homily IX
 * "ang"

- Ġif hwelċ mann biþ on helle āne niht, þonne biþ him lēofre þæt hē hangiġe seofon þūsende wintra on þām lenġestan treowe ufeweardum.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Þæt is nū þæs līchaman gōd þæt man sīe fæġer, and strang, and lang, and brād, and manegu ōðru gōd ēac þām.


 * 1) * c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
 * "ang"

- Þā ġeseah hē onġemang ōðrum twēġen ġeonge cneohtas, þæt hīe wǣron wlitiġe on hīewe and lange on wæstmum.

Etymology
From, related to Old English , Old Norse.

Adjective

 * 1) long

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) long

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) long
 * 2) diluted

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) long (in time)

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) long

Adverb

 * 1) long

Etymology
or.

Adverb

 * 1) only; just

Noun

 * 1) A fly insect.

Etymology
From, probably borrowed from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) yarn, thread

Adjective

 * 1) roan, piebald

Noun

 * 1)  sweet potato

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1)  man; male