Where does “length” come from?

Length comes from Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþu, from Proto-Germanic langiþō, from Proto-Germanic langaz, from Proto-Indo-European dl̥h₁gʰós, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European suffix -tós.

length (English): The distance measured along the longest dimension...

Definitions

  1. The distance measured along the longest dimension...

Ancestry of “length”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishlengthelength
2Old Englishlengþulength
3Proto-Germaniclangiþōlongness, length
4Proto-Germaniclangazlong
5Proto-Indo-Europeandlongʰoslong

Words derived from “length

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dlongʰos
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