English
longword
From long + word.
Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos ‘long’
Proto-Germanic *langaz ‘long’
Proto-West Germanic *lang ‘long’
Old English lang ‘long, tall, lasting’
Middle English long
English long
Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- ‘to say’
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Proto-Germanic *wurdą
Proto-West Germanic *word
Old English word
Middle English word ‘a word’
English word
Today it means
noun A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (with the specific number of bits depending upon the system architecture).
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Etymograph / longword