Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “dlongʰos”

400 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European dlongʰos — including long, along, longer, length, alongside, lent, longest, lengthy.

See the etymology of dlongʰos itself →

English (209)

Latin (58)

Italian (25)

French (19)

Dutch (18)

Swedish (11)

Icelandic (8)

Catalan (7)

Esperanto (5)

Luxembourgish (4)

Old High German (3)

Old Swedish (3)

Old Occitan (3)

Danish (2)

Ido (2)

Faroese (2)

Hungarian (2)

Galician (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Romani (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Low German (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)

Veps (1)

Livonian (1)

Istriot (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Sicilian (1)

Middle French (1)

Friulian (1)

Russian (1)

Polish (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Aromanian (1)