loing
See also: Loing
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loing
References edit
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 25
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43
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loing
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- French: loin
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Etymology edit
From Latin longē (“far away”), from longus (“long, far”).
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loing
- far; far away
- c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
- Chevaliers, fet ele, de loing
- "Sir", said she, from afar
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- French: loin
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From Proto-Celtic *lungeti (“put, place”) (compare Welsh ellwng and dillwng (“to set free, release”) from *(dī-)exs-lungo-), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Cognate with Latin luctor (“to wrestle”) and Old English lūcan (“to lock”).
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·loing
References edit
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lu-n-g-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 249