Where does “lank” come from?

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

lank (Plautdietsch): long (in physical measure), tall

Definitions

  1. long (in physical measure), tall

Ancestry of “lank”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanlank—
2Old Saxonlanglong
3Proto-West Germaniclanglong
4Proto-Germaniclangazlong
5Proto-Indo-Europeandlongʰoslong

Words derived from “lank”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dlongʰos →Every word from Proto-Germanic langaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic lang →