Langian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - langian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- langian
- to grow long, langian to cause longing, may be taken together. Add: I. to lengthen (intrans.) :-- Syððan langað seó niht and wanað se dæg, Angl. viii. 311, 28. Éfern longeð aduesperascit, Lk. R. 24, 29. II. impers. to cause longing, &c. :-- Mé á langað (it ever distresses me) þæs þe ic þé on þyssum hýnðum wát, Seel. 154. Longað þonne þý lǽs þe him con leóða worn he that knows many songs sorrows the less, Gu. Ex. 170. Ongan mé langian for mínre hæftnýde (my captivity began to be irksome to me), and ic ongan gyrnan ꝥ ic sóhte mín mynster, Shrn. 41, 17.