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单词 longs
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longsadv.prep.

Forms: Scottish pre-1700 langis, pre-1700 langous, pre-1700 1800s langs; late Middle English longes, 1900s longs.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: long adj.1, -s suffix1.
Etymology: < long adj.1 + -s suffix1. Compare Old Frisian longes , langes (adverb) lengthwise, (preposition) along, Middle Dutch lancs , langes (adverb) lengthwise, (preposition) along (Dutch langs , in same senses, in use as adverb now regional), Middle Low German langes (adverb) along, (in van langes hēr ) long ago, (preposition) along, Middle High German langes , (with i-mutation) lenges (adverb) long ago, lengthwise (German †langs , längs (adverb) lengthwise, in early modern German also long ago, (preposition) along (15th cent.)). Compare earlier along prep., alongst prep., and later longst adv., longst prep.
Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete (archaic in later use).
A. adv.
Preceding ago or agone: = long adv.1 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a long time
longeOE
longOE
longlyOE
longsomelyOE
yorec1275
lastingly1372
longsa1450
for longa1530
in length1566
with the longest1636
stayingly1648
eternally1664
sometime1801
chronically1854
forever1861
somewhile1864
for the duration1916
long-term1947
secularly1971
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xlv. l. 506 (MED) HereOffen wisten we longes A-go.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lii. l. 748 (MED) I Entrede Into ȝowre Castel Not longes Agon.
B. prep.
= along prep.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > on the side of [preposition] > along or by the side of
alongeOE
alongstc1180
besidesc1200
besidec1275
aboard1449
longs1488
sidelong1577
aside?1615
alongside1704
the world > space > direction > specific directions > [preposition] > along longitudinal dimension of
aftereOE
alongeOE
alongstOE
afterlongc1390
longs1488
longways1561
longst1591
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 9818 In langes [c1275 Calig. on-longen] þane strete.]
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 262 Him selff on loft was with a drawyn suord And bad his ster-man lay thaim langis the bourd.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iv. 134 And, langis the channel,..The Actiane gemmis and sportis did assay.
1535 MS Rec. Aberd. XV. 639 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1825) Suppl. at Haygyng Als gud hagyng throucht the cloiss, & langous the hous syd.
1591 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. 238 He..baid lay ane threid langis the mwre, and commandit to saw the peces of glas langis the mwre.
1611 J. Melville Dream in D. Laing Var. Pieces Fugitive Sc. Poetry (1853) 2nd Ser. ii. 3 With that I step a little langs the gait.
a1899 D. Nicolson MS Coll. Caithness Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III Langs, along.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. III. ix. 6 Sith, they gather cockles, longs the strand, Spoils of Isle Britain!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

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