lenge

From leng (“to swing, sway”) +‎ -e (obsolete participle suffix).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛŋɡɛ]
• Hyphenation: len‧ge
• Rhymes: -ɡɛ

lenge (comparative lengébb, superlative leglengébb)

1. airy, flimsy, gossamer, gauzy, tenuous, insubstantial, ethereal

• lenge in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Probably borrowed from Middle French leynge or its etymon Middle Dutch *lenge, ultimately identical or related to lenge (“length”); compare long.

• leeng, lyng, lynge
• leng, leyng, ling (Northern); leenge (Promptorium Parvulorum)

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːnɡ(ə)/, /ˈlinɡ(ə)/

lenge (plural lenges)

1. ling (fish of the genus Molva, especially Molva molva)

• English: ling
• Middle Scots: leing, ling
  • Scots: ling

• “lē̆ng(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English lenġu, from Proto-West Germanic *langī, from Proto-Germanic *langį̄.

• længe (Early Middle English, Essex)

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːnd͡ʒ(ə)/

lenge (uncountable) (rare)

1. Duration; length of time.
2. Length; linear distance.

• “lē̆ng(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse lengi.

• Audio (Standard East Norwegian):

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lenge (comparative lenger, superlative lengst)

1. long, for a long time

   for lenge - for long, too long

   for lenge siden - a long time ago

   så lenge (som) - as long as

• “lenge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse lengi.

• IPA^(key): /²lɛnʝə/, /²lɛŋɡə/, /²lɛŋːə/

lenge (comparative lenger, superlative lengst)

1. for long

   No har me vore her lenge.

   We have been here for long now.

• “lenge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlen.je/, [ˈlen.d͡ʒe]

lenġe

1. inflection of lenġu:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative singular/plural
   3. genitive/dative singular