Etymology

schlong

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Today it means: A penis, especially a long one. Full definition →

German Schlange ← Middle High German slange ← Yiddish שלאַנג (shlang)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*slenk-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*slonk-ó-s
  3. Proto-Germanic*slangô
  4. Old High Germanslango
  5. Middle High Germanslange
  6. Yiddishשלאַנג (shlang)
  7. Middle High Germanslange
  8. GermanSchlange
  9. English todayschlong

Borrowed from Yiddish שלאַנג (shlang, “snake”; by extension, “a penis”) or German Schlange.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.