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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
daylong en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
Proto-Germanic *dagaz
Proto-West Germanic *dag
Old English dæġ
Middle English day
English day
English -long
English daylong
From day + -long.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.
2014 October 31, David W. Lloyd, “Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave”, in The New York Times:
Coordinates
dayslong
daylong en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?
Proto-Germanic *dagaz
Proto-West Germanic *dag
Old English dæġ
Middle English day
English day
English -long
English daylong
From day + -long.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Throughout the day.
I feel myself to be a man disgraced, walking nightlong and daylong beyond the Paling of a Garden lush with fountains and flowers, waiting In vain for the....
1988, Takēs Papatsōnēs, (Please provide the book title or journal name):...silent house with its bare rooms and bone-white walls on which the southern windows cast slanted plaques of light that slide, daylong, towards the...
1986, J. R. Salamanca, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
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