Words that come from Old English ġelong

400 words across 34 languages descend from Old English ġelong — including long, longer, liberty, library, liberal, delivery, deliver, liberation.

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English (231)

Italian (31)

Latin (26)

French (22)

Dutch (19)

Esperanto (18)

Galician (5)

Ido (4)

Cornish (4)

Irish (3)

Albanian (3)

Welsh (3)

Manx (3)

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Asturian (2)

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Russian (2)

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Polish (2)

Middle French (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Tagalog (1)

Swedish (1)

Mirandese (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Maltese (1)

Old Irish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Catalan (1)

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