del-1. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	del-¹
DEFINITION:	Long. Derivatives include linger, Lent, longitude, and lunge. I. Probably extended and suffixed zero-grade form dlon-gho-. 1a.* long¹; along, longshore, from Old English lang, long, long; b. langlauf, from Old High German lang, long; c. belong, from Old English gelang, along; d. long², from Old English denominative langian, to grow longer, yearn for, from Germanic langn; e. linger, from Old English lengan,* to prolong (possibly influenced by Old Norse lengja, to lengthen), from Germanic langjan, to make long; f. Lombard, from Latin compound Longobardus,* Langobardus (with Germanic ethnic name Bardi). a–f* all from Germanic langaz, long. 2a.* length, from Old English lengthu, length; b. Lent, from Old English lengten, lencten, spring, Lent, from West Germanic langitinaz, lengthening of day; c. ling¹, from Middle English lenge,* ling, ling, from a Low German source akin to Dutch lenghe, linghe, “long one.” a–c all from Germanic abstract noun langith. 3. linguiça, longeron, longitude, lounge; eloign, elongate, longevity, lunge, oblong, prolong, purloin, from Latin longus,* long. II. Possibly suffixed variant form d-gho-. dolichocephalic, dolichocranial, from Greek dolikhos,* long. (Pokorny 5. del- 196.)


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