lengi

• lenzi (standard orthography)

lengi

1. Alternative form of lenzi

From Old Norse lengi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈleiɲcɪ]

  Rhymes: -eiɲcɪ

lengi (comparative lengur, superlative lengst)

1. long (for a long time)

The adverb lengi is categorised as one of the tíðaratviksorð or “adverbs of time”.

• ekki lengur
• lengi lifi
• mega lengi lifa

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *langī, from Proto-Germanic *langį̄; equivalent to lang (“long”) +‎ -ī.

lengī f

1. length

• Middle High German: lenge
  • Alemannic German: Längi
    • Alsatian: Länga
    • Swabian: Läng
  • Bavarian: Läng, Leng
  • Central Franconian: Läng, Leng

    Hunsrik: Leng

  • German: Länge
  • Rhine Franconian: Läng, Leng
    • Palatine German: Läng
    • Pennsylvania German: Leng
  • Vilamovian: łeń
  • Yiddish: לענג (leng)

Possibly from an accusative case form of Proto-Germanic *langį̄.

lengi (comparative lengr, superlative lengst)

1. long (for a long time)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lengi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive