The story
- Old English · inherited fromand-
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*and-
- Old English · inherited fromandlang“on length, along, continuously”
- Middle English · inherited from[Term?]
- English todayendlang
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English andlang (“on length, along, continuously”), from Proto-Germanic *and- + *lang-, equivalent to Old English and- (prefix) + long. More at endlong, along.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishandlang all →
alongendlong
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.