Where does “lang” come from?

lang (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German lanc, from Old Saxon lang, from Proto-West Germanic lang, from Proto-Germanic langaz, from Proto-Indo-European dlongʰos — long.

lang (Plautdietsch): long (in time)

Definitions

  1. long (in time)

Ancestry of “lang”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanlanc—
2Old Saxonlanglong
3Proto-West Germaniclanglong
4Proto-Germaniclangazlong
5Proto-Indo-Europeandlongʰoslong
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dlongʰos →Every word from Proto-Germanic langaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic lang →
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