köken: Inherited from Latin longē, from the adjective longus (“long, far-off”). Compare Catalan lluny, archaic Spanish lueñe.
aile: a beau mentir qui vient de loin, de loin, il y a loin de la coupe aux lèvres, la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l'arbre, loin de là, loin des yeux, loin du cœur, loin s'en faut, revenir de loin
C'est encore loin ? — Hâlâ uzak mı?
2014, Indila, Égo On est loin, on est loin du Jardin d'Éden, éternelle réalité.
Dis-toi qu'il n'est pas loin, et qu'on y brille, à ton étoile.
köken: From the Vulgar Latin *longitānus, from Latin longe; cognate with French lointain, Sicilian luntanu, Friulian and Romansch lontan, Dalmatian luntun.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dweh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *dweh₂rós Proto-Indo-Iranian *duHrás Proto-Iranian *duHráh Persian دور Inherited from Proto-Iranian *duHráh (“far”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *duHrás (“far”), from Proto-Indo-European *dweh₂rós, from *dweh₂- + *-rós. Cognate with Central Kurdish دوور (dûr, “far, distant”), Northern Luri دیر (dir), Pashto لرې…
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-lta, from *-l(l)- (external locative infix; see -lle) + *-ta (ablative/separative case suffix). Compare -лдо (-ldo) in Erzya васолдо (vasoldo, “from afar”).
indicates actions whose direction is pointing away from the speaker, either literally or figuratively · indicates the unsuccessful or inaccurate completion of an action · indicates separation, deprivation, etc.
köken: Cognate with Northern Mansi эл- (èl-).
megy (“to go, to walk”) → elmegy (“to go away”)
vet (“to throw, to cast”) → elvet (“to dismiss, to rule out, to throw out (a plan or a possible solution)”)
néz (“to look”) → elnéz (“to excuse, to forgive, to look the other way”)
From Ottoman Turkish اوزاق, from Proto-Turkic *uŕak (“long”). Cognate with Old Turkic uzaq, Kazakh ұзақ (ūzaq), etc. Also further cognate with uzun (“long”).