loing

• luing (superseded)

loing

1. (archaic) dative singular of long

loing

1. far; far away

• French: loin

From Latin longē (“far away”), from longus (“long, far”).

• IPA^(key): /lõ(j)ɲ/

loing

1. far; far away
   • circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     Chevaliers, fet ele, de loing

     "Sir", said she, from afar

• loingtien

• esloignier
• porloignier

• French: loin

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”).

• IPA^(key): /l͈oŋʲɡʲ/

·loing

1. Only used in fo·loing and in·loing.

• 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