endlong

English

Alternative forms

endelong (obsolete)

Etymology

Old English andlang ( > along), re-formed by popular etymology in Middle English as end + long; partly from Old Norse cognate endlangr.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndlɒŋ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndˌlɔŋ/

Preposition

endlong

(archaic) Along (as opposed to across), from end to end of.

Translations

from end to end

Bulgarian: надлъж (nadlǎž)

Adverb

endlong (not comparable)

From end to end.
Continuously.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  The rest he leaves in ground: So takes in hond
  To seeke her endlong both by sea and lond
On end.

Anagrams

Glendon, Longden

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