Where does โ€œlangeโ€ come from?

lange (Middle English) comes from Old English lange, from Old English E, from Latin E, from Etruscan ๐Œ„, from Ancient Greek ฮต, from Phoenician ๐ค„, from Egyptian ๐“€ .

Ancestry of โ€œlangeโ€, step by step

lange traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old English lange

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishlangelong, for a long time
2Old EnglishEโ€”
3LatinEScribal abbreviation of the diphthong ae
4Etruscan๐Œ„โ€”
5Ancient GreekฮตLower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was ฮตแผถ, later แผ’ ฯˆฮนฮปฯŒฮฝ, and presently ฮญฯˆฮนฮปฮฟฮฝ. It represents roughly the same sound in both alphabets: in Modern Greek, a somewhat lowered variant of the mid front unrounded vowel: or. It is preceded by ฮด and foll
6Phoenician๐ค„that
7Egyptian๐“€ โ€”

via Old English longe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old EnglishlongeAlternative spelling of lange
Every word from Egyptian ๐“€  โ†’Every word from Phoenician ๐ค„ โ†’Every word from Ancient Greek ฮต โ†’