purloinv.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman porloigner, porloingner, purloigner, purloiner, purlugner, purluigner, purluiner (compare Old French porlognier , porloigner , pourloigner , pourloignier , etc.) to delay, postpone (12th cent.), to prolong, extend (first half of the 13th cent. or earlier), to set aside, reject (first half of the 13th cent. or earlier) < por- , pur- pur- prefix + loign , loin , loing , luign , luin , etc. (adverb) far, far off, far away, remote (11th cent., originally with spatial rather than temporal reference; French loin ; < classical Latin longē far ( < longus long adj.¹ + -ē , suffix forming adverbs)), after post-classical Latin prolongare prolong v. It is unclear whether the senses of the English verb show a semantic development within English or were borrowed from corresponding (apparently unrecorded) senses in Anglo-Norman. Compare slightly later proloyne v., and also later prolong v. 4.The form purlongyn in the following quot. apparently shows an isolated alteration (with prefix substitution: compare pur- prefix) of prolong v.: ▸ 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 417 Purlongyn, or prolongyn, or put fer a-wey, prolongo, alieno. Forms in par- , per- apparently show prefix substitution (compare per- prefix). In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix).