The story
- Latin · derived fromlongus
- Late Latin · derived fromlongare
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*allongare
- Old French · derived fromalonge
- French · derived fromallonge
- English todaylunge
From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus. Doublet of allonge.
Words from the same roots
Frenchallonge all →
allonge
Latinlongus all →
longlongicornlongilaterallongiloquencelongiroster
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.