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Allin

lang

nounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈlæŋ//
  • //ˈleɪ̯ŋ//
  • //ˈlɛ̃ŋ//

long

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of languageClipping of language.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Vulgar Latin *linguāticum Old French languagebor. Middle English langage English languageclip. English lang Clipping of language.

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoletelong

Etymology

Inherited from Northern Middle English lang (“long”) (southern long).

Forms

plural
langs
comparative
langer
superlative
langest
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).