endlong

English

Alternative forms

• endelong (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old English andlang ( > along), re-formed by popular etymology in Middle English as end + long; partly from Old Norse cognate endlangr.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndlɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndˌlɔŋ/

Preposition

endlong

1. (archaic) Along (as opposed to across), from end to end of.

Translations

from end to end

• Bulgarian: надлъж (nadlǎž)

Adverb

endlong (not comparable)

1. From end to end.
2. Continuously.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The rest he leaves in ground: So takes in hond
     To seeke her endlong both by sea and lond

3. On end.

Anagrams

• Glendon, Longden