Word Origin Summary

*langaz is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Langworthy

  English · derived from

• Longdon

  English · derived from

• Langthorne

  English · derived from

• langur

  Icelandic · inherited from

• lhaung

  Yola · inherited from

• Langdon

  English · derived from

• long

  Middle English · inherited from

• long-acuminate

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root