A Scottish or dialectal word meaning 'long,' often used in poetry or traditional Scottish English.
From Old English 'lang' and Old Norse 'langr,' both meaning long. It survived in Scottish dialect while the English standard form changed to 'long,' showing how regions preserve old language forms.
Scottish English preserved words that modern English dropped, which is why Scottish poetry feels both ancient and modern—it's using the real ancestors of English that regular English left behind.
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