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From leng (“to swing, sway”) +‎ -e (obsolete participle suffix).[1][2]

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛŋɡɛ]
  • Hyphenation: len‧ge
  • Rhymes: -ɡɛ

lenge (comparative lengébb, superlative leglengébb)

  1. airy, flimsy, gossamer, gauzy, tenuous, insubstantial, ethereal
  1. ^ lenge in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
  2. ^ Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (“Explanatory Dictionary Plus”). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN
  • lenge in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Norse lengi.

lenge (comparative lenger, superlative lengst)

  1. long, for a long time
    for lenge - for long, too long
    for lenge siden - a long time ago
    så lenge (som) - as long as

From Old Norse lengi.

  • IPA(key): /²lɛnʝə/, /²lɛŋɡə/, /²lɛŋːə/

lenge (comparative lenger, superlative lengst)

  1. for long

    No har me vore her lenge.

    We have been here for long now.
  • IPA(key): /ˈlen.je/, [ˈlen.d͡ʒe]

lenġe

  1. inflection of lenġu:
    1. nominative plural
    2. accusative singular/plural
    3. genitive/dative singular