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lang

Pronunciation: /lɑnɡ/

“lang” is an Old English word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. long
  2. tall

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos. Cognate with Old Frisian long, Old Saxon lang, Old High German lang, Old Norse langr, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (laggs), and outside of Germanic, with Latin longus.

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