langung

• longung

From langian +‎ -ung.

langung f

1. longing, desire
2. weariness, grief
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Ne biþ him tō hearpan hyġe, ne tō hringþege, ne tō wīfe wyn, ne tō worulde hyht, ne ymbe ōwiht elles, nefne ymb ȳða ġewealc, ac ā hafað longunge sē þe on lagu fundað.

     His mind is not for a harp, nor for a gift of ring, nor for a wife’s mirth, nor for world’s hope, nor about anything else, unless about the rolling of waves, but he always has a longing, the one who rushes onto the sea.

3. lengthening, prolongation, delay

Strong ō-stem:

• langunghwīl

• Middle English: longinge, langynge
  • English: longing
  • Scots: langing

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “langung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “langung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.