lengthe

• lencth, lencþe, lenght, lenghte, length, lengþe, lenkthe, lenkþe; lengðe (Early Middle English)
• leinþ (Ireland); lenght, lenȝte, lenkethe (Northwest Midland); leinthe, leyngeth, leynthe, leynþe (Southwestern, West Midland)
• lenth, lenthe, lenþe (especially East Anglia, Northern, West Midland); lenghthe, lenȝth, lenkith (especially Northern); lengh, lenghe (especially West Midland, Yorkshire)

Inherited from Old English lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō; equivalent to long +‎ -the (abstract nominal suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛnɡθ(ə)/, /ˈlɛnkθ(ə)/, /ˈlɛnθ(ə)/

lengthe (plural lengthes)

1. Duration; length of time.
   1. A period of time, especially if long.
   2. The passage or course of time.
2. Length or height; linear distance.

• English: length
• Middle Scots: lenth, lenthe
  • Scots: lenth, lainth

• “leng(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “length(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• McIntosh, Angus; Samuels, M[ichael] L.; Benskin, Michael (2013) [1986], Michael Benskin, Margaret Laing, editors, eLALME: A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English‎^[1], Edinburgh: Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics; revised November 2024.