Talk:lank

I wonder if this word should have some kind of qualifier, like uncommon, or dated perhaps? Maybe those don't really apply accurately, but I do have a feeling that the majority of modern English speakers, at least in the U.S., are not really familiar with this word, or at least don't use it much. I've known it for a while, but that's because I've read older works where it was used more commonly. It's true that Merriam-Webster and other sources don't list it as dated or rare, but only once have I heard someone use it in actual speech, and it was an elderly woman. It's one of those words one has to look up in the dictionary to learn, as it doesn't seem to be part of common or popular vocabulary anymore, but is still used by some authors in written texts. Word dewd544 (talk) 03:16, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

English cognates

I would think some of the more appropriate cognates for lank would be Dutch lang (“long, tall”) German lang (“long, tall”), and so on. However, the listed cognates seem to refer solely to the PIE etymon, which would be better found at the entry for the etymon, and not here. --2A02:A473:FE0C:1:F361:E4B3:A6E3:9577 13:50, 19 August 2024 (UTC)