Etymology

rangy

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Today it means: Slender and long of limb; lanky. Full definition →

English range ← Middle English rengen ← Old French rengier
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(H)rek-
  2. Proto-Celtic*reketi
  3. Gaulish*rekosbor.?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₃reǵ-
  5. Proto-Germanic*rinkaną
  6. Proto-Germanic*rankaz
  7. Frankish*rankbor.?
  8. Vulgar Latin*rencus
  9. Old Frenchreng
  10. Old Frenchrengier
  11. Middle Englishrengen
  12. Englishrange
  13. English todayrangy

From range + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.