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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

lang.

long (having great distance)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

adj/lanɡ/[lɑŋˀ]
  1. long (having great distance)

Where this word comes from

From Old Danish langer, lang, from Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), cognate with Swedish lång, English long, German lang. The adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos, *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”), which is also the source of Latin longus, Ancient Greek δολιχός (dolikhós).

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