Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *langōnąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_langōną
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*lénkteito bend, twine
verbWeak class 2to desire; long forOf uncertain origin. Often taken as related to *langaz (‘long (in length)’), with semantic development "long length" > "reach, extend" > "wish to reach to, long for". However, Orel appears implicitly skeptical, and prefers to connect the root, as well as Old English andlang (‘along’) and its relatives, with Proto-Balto-Slavic *lénktei (‘to bend, twine’) instead.Other derive the verb from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ-, *legʷʰ- (‘to be easy, be quick, jump, move around, vary’).