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Where does “lankmoed” come from?

lankmoed (Dutch) comes from Dutch lang, from Middle Dutch lanc, from Old Dutch lang, from Proto-West Germanic lang, from Proto-Germanic langaz, from Proto-Indo-European dlongʰos — long.

lankmoed (Dutch): patience

Definitions

  1. patience

Ancestry of “lankmoed”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchlanglong; tall; long , lengthy, a long time
2Middle Dutchlanc—
3Old Dutchlang—
4Proto-West Germaniclanglong
5Proto-Germaniclangazlong
6Proto-Indo-Europeandlongʰoslong
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