köken: From Middle Dutch lengede, from Old Dutch *lengitha, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō. Corresponds to lang + -te with umlaut (compare lengen). Cognate with German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), English length, Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic…
aile: golflengte, lengte-afwijking, lengte-as, lengtecirkel, lengtedal, lengtegraad, lengtemaat, oosterlengte, scheepslengte, tot in lengte van dagen
length (measurement of distance) · misspelling of cumprimento
çekim: çoğul comprimentos
eş: extensão, tamanho
köken: From Latin complēmentum (“complement”), or from Old Galician-Portuguese comprir + -mento. Compare also the doublets cumprimento and complemento.
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 기릐 (Yale: kiluy). By surface analysis, 길다 (gilda, “long”) + -이 (-i, “noun-deriving suffix”).
length (distance measured along the longest dimension of an object) · length (total extent) · length (duration in time)
çekim: çoğul długości · tamlayan długości
eş: długość fali, długość geograficzna
zıt: krótkość
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *delh₁gʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós Proto-Balto-Slavic *dílˀgas Proto-Slavic *dь̀lgъ Old Polish długi Proto-Indo-European *-Hostis Proto-Balto-Slavic *-astis Proto-Slavic *-ostь Old Polish -ość Old Polish długość Polish długość Inherited from Old Polish długość. By surface analysis, długi + -ość.
aile: długość geograficzna, długość geograficzna wschodnia, długość geograficzna zachodnia
length (the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object; total extent) · length, duration · length (the length of a swimming pool as a measure of distance swum)
çekim: çoğul hosszak
köken: Back-formation from hossza (“its length”), the 3rd-person possessive form of hosszú (“long”, [obsolete] “length”); for its word-final vowel alternation ú ~ a, compare borjú → borja and others. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries, from phrases like egyhosszában (“in a row”, rare; synonym of egyvégtében), se vége, se hossza (“[there is/was] no…
köken: Equivalent to lang + -de: from Old Danish længth, from Old Norse lengð, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō. Cognate with Swedish längd and English length.