endlong

English

Alternative forms

  • (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛndlɒŋ/

Preposition

endlong

  1. Along (as opposed to across), from end to end of.
    • Late 14thc.: Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
      Looke what day that endelong Britayne / Ye remove alle the rokkes, stoon by stoon
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vij, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
      So sir launcelot lete his hors drynke / and sythen he bete on the bacyn with the butte of his spere so hard with al his myȝt tyl the bottom felle oute / and longe he dyd soo but he sawe noo thynge Thenne he rode endlong the gates of that manoyre nyghe half an houre

Adverb

endlong (not comparable)

  1. From end to end.
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