The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*langabardaz
- Lombardic · derived from*langbart
- Latin · learned borrowing fromlangobardus“a Lombard”
- English todayLangobard
Learned borrowing from Latin langobardus (“a Lombard”), from Lombardic *langbart, from Proto-Germanic *langabardaz, derived from the elements *langaz (“long”) + *bardaz (“beard”). Doublet of Lombard.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.