long

head

long (plural longe, diminutive longetjie)

From Dutch long, from Middle Dutch longe, also longen, longene, from Old Dutch *lungan, *lunganna, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō.


long

From English along. Equivalent to Cantonese 同 (tung⁴) grammatically.


long

nl-noun

long f or m (plural longen, diminutive longetje n)

longen (plural)
longetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: long

Negerhollands: longe

→ Papiamentu: long (dated)

→ Sranan Tongo: lon

→ Caribbean Javanese: long

From Middle Dutch longe, also longen, longene, from Old Dutch *lungan, *lunganna, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō.


long

This table is long but not very high.

Having much distance in space from one end to the other.

Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).

Smith hoofs a long ball up to Jones.

My ex was very strong but not very long.

I need a long piece of wood.

It’s a long way from the Earth to the Moon.

How long was your newborn baby?

We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.

Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship’s magazine.

2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 28:10 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-11-07:

Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.

(of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.

Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.

That forehand was long. It landed two feet beyond the baseline.

The pass was long and was gathered by the opposing goalkeeper.

(sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.

His speech was long and dull.

The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.

I took a long look at the house, knowing it was for the last time.

I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

It took us three long weeks to clear the stones from the field.

It'll be a long journey home for the travelling supporters after that 5-0 defeat.

What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady’s carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 109:

Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.

The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long, the short and the tall.

1940, Fred Godfrey (lyrics and music), “Bless 'Em All”performed by George Formby:

I’m long in DuPont.

I have a long position in DuPont.

(finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.

(cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).

(gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.

But Campbell thus did ſhut vp all in ieſt, / Braue Knights and Ladies, certes ye doe wrong / To ſtirre vp ſtrife, when moſt vs needeth reſt, / That we may vs reſerue both freſh and ſtrong, / Againſt the Turneiment which is not long.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 55:

Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.

I’m talkin’ ’bout… I’m talkin’ ’bout that long money.

2011 December 18, “Ballin' Uncontrollably” (track 7), in King Mather's LP, performed by Eminem:

Me and broke niggas, we don’t get along (Nah). Hair long (Long), money long (Yeah).

2012 November 8, “I'm Different” (track 6), in Based on a T.R.U. Story, performed by 2 Chainz:

Rent-a-cars we road run, money longer than train smoke.

2013 October 7, “No Regrets” (track 7), in My Name Is My Name, performed by Pusha T:

Money so long, it’s offensive.

2016 November 24, “Upgrade You”performed by Kash Doll:

I got some rope in the trunk, tape and one shovel
Long money, talkin’ billions, nigga, and I want several

2021 September 24, “Hell on Earth, Pt. 2”, in Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Side B, performed by Westside Gunn:

(African-American Vernacular, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.

BOY: B, this is long for man, you know.
B: Keep complaining.
BOY: Fucking gemming it with these things (he continues collecting empty drinks cans).

2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:35:44 from the start, in Brady Hood, director, Top Boy (Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by unnamed boy, girl called B:

INCHEZ: Man this is long! We’ve been in here for time!

2023 January 15, Layton Williams, 12:51 from the start, in Freddy Syborn, director, Bad Education (Prison) (4), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Inchez (Anthony J. Abraham):

(slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.

[Verse 1: Sleeks]: Keep thinking about Ps that I need but it’s long. All these things that I've done in the streets got me on my knees trying to reason with God. B-B beefin’ is long but I might still greeze up a Don.

2015 September 18, “Brand New” (track 6), in Don't Panic, performed by Smoke Boys:

MOBEEN: I do love nature when it’s on television and David Attenborough’s presenting. I hate nature in real life! Smells like shite around here! Plants and (he waves a fly away) …plants and that. It’s so long!

2017 December 17, Guz Khan, Andy Milligan, “Upper Room” (00:38 from the start), in Ollie Parsons, director, Man Like Mobeen (1), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Mobeen Deen (Guz Khan):

DUSHANE: I’m stepping back from the roads now. All of that shit is long! And by next year, I want to be completely legit, then it’s just me, you and Tish.

2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:15:46 from the start, in Brady Hood, director, Top Boy (Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by Dushane (Ashley Walters):

Nah fuck that I don't like mixing my circles like that. Plus if some shit goes bad I gotta be in the middle it's all long

2023 February 18, Simba-xiv, “Most Guys Know That They're^([sic]) Friends Aren't Shit With Women”, in Reddit (subreddit: BlackPeopleTwitter):

(slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit

JAMIE: Yo, if I see you man round here again, it is long for you!

2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, 32:20 from the start, in William Stefan Smith, director, Top Boy (Prove Yourself) (4), episode 8 (TV), spoken by Jamie (Micheal Ward):

(slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.

en-adj

long (comparative longer or more long, superlative longest or most long)

longer (comparative)
more long (comparative)
longest (superlative)
most long (superlative)

deep

having much distance from one point to another

low

antonym(s) of “having much distance from one point to another”

he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon

the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long

長倉

finance: possessing or owning financial instruments

From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond, song, throng, wrong), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.


long

In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.

1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, volume 2, page 60:

(music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.

(programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.

Every uptick made the longs cheer.

(finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.

Likewise, if borrowers prefer to sell short-maturity issues at the time lenders prefer to invest in longs, as is the case when interest rates are expected to fall, longer maturity issues will tend to yield less than shorter maturity issues.

1977, Jerome B. Cohen, Edward D. Zinbarg, Arthur Zeikel, Guide to Intelligent Investing, →OCLC, page 203:

"U.S. Treasury Market Structure", https://www.mfaalts.org/issue/u-s-treasury-market-structure/
Hedge funds are constrained in how much leverage they can utilize, in part because the futures contracts they are shorting against their Treasury longs have significant initial margin requirements.

(finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.

“[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long.”
“Last Long?”
“Hem! last protracted vacation.”

(Oxbridge, dated) Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”).


long

The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.

2004, Thomas S. Y. Ho with Sang Bin Lee and Sang-bin Yi, The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling, page 84:

(transitive, finance) To take a long position in.

en-verb

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

longs (present singular third-person)
longing (participle present)
longed (participle past)
longed (past)


long

Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight.

(chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.

She hit her return long and lost the point.

Over too great a distance, beyond the target.

How long is it until the next bus arrives?

She has known us as long as you.

I’ve waited long enough.

He slept all day long.

I ſtay too long ; but here my Father comes : / A double bleſſing is a double grace; / Occaſion ſmiles vpon a ſecond leaue.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 156, column 1:

I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern.

1991, James Melvin Washington, editor, A testament of hope: the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, page 636:

Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.

By eight o’clock, the food will be long gone.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 2:

The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.

1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.

2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

(as premodifier of a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.

It’s an earth song,—
And I’ve been waiting long for an earth song.
It’s a spring song,—
And I’ve been waiting long for a spring song.[…]
I have been waiting long for this spring song.

1925, Langston Hughes, “An Earth Song”, in Alain LeRoy Locke, editor, The New Negro: An Interpretation, New York: Albert and Charles Boni, page 142:

(postposed to positive verb, rare) For a long time.

Will this interview take long?

I haven’t got long to live.

They are in a hurry; they can’t wait for too long.

My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 512:

[Verse 1]:[…]Be there in five, man’s taking long. Are you still there? No fam, I’m already gone.

2021 August 19, “Drake”performed by Most Certi:

en-adv

long (comparative longer, superlative longest)

longer (comparative)
longest (superlative)

a creaking door hangs long on its hinges

From Middle English longe, lange, from Old English longe, lange, from the adjective (see above).


long

She longed for him to come back.

The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.

1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:

(intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).

From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to long for, yearn after, grieve for, be pained, lengthen, grow longer, summon, belong”), from Proto-West Germanic *langōn, from Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“to be easy, be quick, jump, move around, vary”). Cognate with German langen (“to reach, be sufficient”), Swedish langa (“to push, pass by hand”), Icelandic langa (“to want, desire”), Dutch, German verlangen (“to desire, want, long for”).


long

I am of opinion, that in regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, II.8, page 224:

From Middle English long, lang, an aphetic form of Middle English ilong, ylong, from Old English ġelong, ġelang (“along, belonging, depending, consequent”); the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.


long

A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long’d to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

(archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.


long

Coordinate term: lat


long

Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges,
And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d:
From one that knew not what a King ſhould doe,
To one that can commaund what longs there to: […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:

From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to belong, pertain”), from Old English *lang, which is of uncertain origin yet related to Old English ġelang (“dependent, attainable, present, belonging, consequent”), Old Saxon gilang (“ready, available”).


long

frp-adj

long (feminine longe, masculine plural longs, feminine plural longes)

longe (feminine)
longs (masculine plural)
longes (feminine plural)


long

fr-adj

long (feminine longue, masculine plural longs, feminine plural longues)

longue (feminine)
longs (masculine plural)
longues (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French long, from longe, longue, feminine of lonc, lunc, from Latin longus. Cognate with English long, origin of German Chaiselongue.


long

Le nez de Pinocchio mesure le matin 5 cm de long.

Pinocchio's nose measures 5 cm long in the morning.

J’aime marcher le long du fleuve.


long

From Proto-Hlai *C-luŋ (“big”), from Pre-Hlai *C-luŋ (Norquest, 2015). Compare Proto-Tai *ʰluəŋᴬ (“big”) (whence Thai หลวง (lǔuang)).


long

From Betawi [Term?], from Hokkien 烺 (lóng, lōng, “bright”).


long

head

long f (genitive singular loinge, nominative plural longa)

loinge (genitive singular)
longa (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
long (indefinite singular)
longa (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a long (indefinite singular)
a longa (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
loinge (indefinite singular)
long (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
loing (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an long (definite singular)
na longa (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na loinge (definite singular)
na long (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an long (definite singular)
leis an loing (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don long (definite singular)
don loing (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na longa (definite plural)

From Old Irish long, from Latin (navis) longa (“long (ship)”).


long

[Verse 2]: Him seh 'im love di way mi bubble how mi tan pon hi' long. Mek me talk Chinese like me live Hong Kong.

2019 October 21, “Bruk It”performed by Spice (musician) and Jugglerz:

For a lengthy duration (see usage notes).


long

ms-noun

long (Jawi spelling لوڠ, plural long-long, informal 1st possessive longku, 2nd possessive longmu, 3rd possessive longnya)

لوڠ (Jawi)
long-long (plural)
longku (first-person informal possessive)
longmu (possessive second-person)
longnya (possessive third-person)

Compare Khmer លោង (loong), Cham [louŋ], Thai โลง (loong).


long

English: long

Geordie English: lang

Scots: lang

Yola: lhaung, long

From Old English lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang.


long

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *looŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lawŋ.


long

Etymology tree
Sanskrit लवङ्ग (lavaṅga)
Prakrit 𑀮𑀯𑀁𑀕 (lavaṃga)
Assamese লং (loṅ)
Naga Pidgin longInherited from Assamese লং (loṅ), from Prakrit 𑀮𑀯𑀁𑀕 (lavaṃga), from Sanskrit लवङ्ग (lavaṅga).


long

Six s'maïnes avant Noué, et six s'maïnes après, les nits sont les pûs longues, et le jours les pûs freds.

1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 533:

Six weeks before Christmas and six weeks after, the nights are the longest and the days the coldest.

From Old French long, a back-formation from longe, longue, the feminine form of Early Old French lonc, from Latin longus.


long

head

long m (feminine singular longa, masculine plural longs, feminine plural longas)

longa (feminine singular)
longs (masculine plural)
longas (feminine plural)


long

long (masculine nominative singular)
long (feminine nominative singular)
long (neuter nominative singular)
longne (accusative masculine singular)
longe (accusative feminine singular)
long (accusative neuter singular)
longes (genitive masculine singular)
longre (feminine genitive singular)
longes (genitive neuter singular)
longum (dative masculine singular)
longre (dative feminine singular)
longum (dative neuter singular)
longe (instrumental masculine singular)
longre (feminine instrumental singular)
longe (instrumental neuter singular)
longe (masculine nominative plural)
longa (feminine nominative plural)
longe (feminine nominative plural)
long (neuter nominative plural)
longe (accusative masculine plural)
longa (accusative feminine plural)
longe (accusative feminine plural)
long (accusative neuter plural)
longra (genitive masculine plural)
longra (feminine genitive plural)
longra (genitive neuter plural)
longum (dative masculine plural)
longum (dative feminine plural)
longum (dative neuter plural)
longum (instrumental masculine plural)
longum (feminine instrumental plural)
longum (instrumental neuter plural)
longa (masculine nominative singular)
longe (feminine nominative singular)
longe (neuter nominative singular)
longan (accusative masculine singular)
longan (accusative feminine singular)
longe (accusative neuter singular)
longan (genitive masculine singular)
longan (feminine genitive singular)
longan (genitive neuter singular)
longan (dative masculine singular)
longan (dative feminine singular)
longan (dative neuter singular)
longan (instrumental masculine singular)
longan (feminine instrumental singular)
longan (instrumental neuter singular)
longan (masculine nominative plural)
longan (feminine nominative plural)
longan (neuter nominative plural)
longan (accusative masculine plural)
longan (accusative feminine plural)
longan (accusative neuter plural)
longra (genitive masculine plural)
longena (genitive masculine plural)
longra (feminine genitive plural)
longena (feminine genitive plural)
longra (genitive neuter plural)
longena (genitive neuter plural)
longum (dative masculine plural)
longum (dative feminine plural)
longum (dative neuter plural)
longum (instrumental masculine plural)
longum (feminine instrumental plural)
longum (instrumental neuter plural)


long

long m (oblique and nominative feminine singular longe or longue)

longe (feminine nominative oblique singular)
longue (feminine nominative oblique singular)
longs (masculine singular subjective)
longe (feminine singular subjective)
longue (feminine singular subjective)
long (neuter singular subjective)
long (masculine oblique singular)
longe (feminine oblique singular)
longue (feminine oblique singular)
long (neuter oblique singular)
longe (oblique singular)
longue (oblique singular)
long (oblique singular)
long (masculine plural subjective)
longes (feminine plural subjective)
longues (feminine plural subjective)
long (neuter plural subjective)
long (plural subjective)
longs (masculine oblique plural)
longes (feminine oblique plural)
longues (feminine oblique plural)
long (neuter oblique plural)
longes (oblique plural)
longues (oblique plural)
long (oblique plural)

French: long

Norman: long (Jersey), laong (Guernsey)


long

desc

North Frisian: lung, lüng, (older also) long

Saterland Frisian: loang

West Frisian: lang

From Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos. Cognates include Old English lang, Old Saxon lang and Old Dutch *lang.


long

head

long f (genitive lungae, nominative plural longa)

lungae (genitive)
longa (nominative plural)
long (nominative singular)
loing (dual nominative)
luing (dual nominative)
longa (nominative plural)
long (singular vocative)
loing (dual vocative)
luing (dual vocative)
longa (plural vocative)
loing (accusative singular)
luing (accusative singular)
loing (accusative dual)
luing (accusative dual)
longa (accusative plural)
lungae (genitive singular)
long (dual genitive)
long (genitive plural)
loing (dative singular)
luing (dative singular)
longaib (dative dual)
longaib (dative plural)
long
also llong after a proclitic
ending in a vowel

Irish: long

Manx: lhong

Scottish Gaelic: long

Generally assumed to be a Latin loan, from (navis) longa, but Joseph Loth believed it to be from Proto-Celtic *longā; either way, cognate to Welsh llong.


long

Bihaen hemi finisim skul blong hem, hemi go minista long sios long ples blong hem long 'Areo.

1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu, page 75:


long

long f (genitive singular luinge, plural longan)

luinge (genitive singular)
longan (plural)

From Old Irish long. Compare Welsh llong.


long

These lights must rise in the sky to cast light toward the ground.

Used to mark spatial direct objects that something is oriented in the manner of, where English would use to, toward, into, or onto

Used to mark spatial direct objects that something is oriented in the location of, where English would use in, at, on, or near

And God made a good speech to give strength to them. He said to them: "You varied things of the ocean, you must multiply and fill every part of the sea. And you birds, you must multiply on earth.

Used to mark indirect objects, or direct objects of intransitive verbs, where English would use to

Then God made a woman out of that bone he had taken from the man, and later he brought the woman to go to the man.

Used to mark spatial direct objects that something is oriented in the manner opposite of, extracted from, or away from, where English would use from or out of

And the Lord God said to the snake: "You did a bad deed, and so I have a powerful curse for you. You will have a great weight. The wight you carry will exceed that of any all animals. Now, and for all times, you will only walk on your stomach. And you will eat the dirt of the earth.

Used to mark temporal direct objects in which a condition lasts for a certain duration of time, where English would use for

And God said to Adam: "You listened to what your woman said, and you ate a fruit of this tree which I have forbidden you from eating. And so I will now corrupt the earth, and food will not grow well enough. You will work very hard forever to make food grow in the ground.

Used to mark a verb whose subject is the direct object of another verb, where English would use to or from


long

răng long


long

w'oul daie an ercha daie, our meines an oure gurles, praie var long an happie zins,

1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 11-12:

we will daily and every day, our wives and our children, implore long and happy days,