loing
See also: Loing
Old French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lõ(j)ɲ/
Adverb
loing
- 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
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Derived terms
- loingtien
Related terms
Old Irish
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l͈oŋʲɡʲ/
References
- 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
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