linge

Meanings

verblinge (third-person singular simple present linges, present participle linging, simple past and past participle linged)

present singular third person linges · participle present linging · participle past linged · past linged

UKdialectalintransitiveobsoleteTo work hard.

Origin

Proto-Germanic*langijaną“to make long”
Proto-West Germanic*langijan
Old Englishlenġan“to make long, lengthen”
Middle Englishlengen“to linger”
Englishlinge

From Middle English lengen (“to linger”), from Old English lenġan (“to make long, lengthen”), from Proto-West Germanic *langijan, from Proto-Germanic *langijaną (“to make long”). Cognate with Scots ling (“to lengthen, prolong, delay; tarry, continue”). More at linger.

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