Etymology

lounge

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Today it means: To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. Full definition →

French s'allonger
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The story

  1. French · borrowed froms'allonger“to lie down”
  2. English todaylounge

Origin uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from French s'allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.