linger

• vi. さまよう；ぐずぐずする；ぐずぐずする
• vt. ゆっくりと過ぎ去る。
• n.（リンガー）人の名前；（ドイツ語、チェコ語、スウェーデン語）Linge；（フランス語）Lange

語源は古英語のlengan「長くする」「長引かせる」で、語源はlong「長引く」「長居する」。

linger

linger: [13] Etymologically, to linger is to remain ‘longer’ than one should. Like its relatives, German l?ngen and Dutch lengen, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgjan ‘lengthen’. In Old Norse this became lengja, which was borrowed into English in the 10th century as leng. By now, ‘lengthen’ had progressed metaphorically via ‘prolong’ to ‘delay’, which is what it meant when linger was derived from it in the 13th century.
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linger (v.)

c. 1300, lenger "reside, dwell," northern England frequentative of lengen "to tarry," from Old English lengan "prolong, lengthen," from Proto-Germanic *langjan "to make long" (cognates: Old Frisian lendza, Old High German lengan, Dutch lengen "to lengthen"), source of Old English lang (see long (adj.)). Sense of "delay going, depart slowly and unwillingly" is from 1520s. Related: Lingered; lingering.

1. When apartheid is over the maladies will linger on.

アパルトヘイト政策を廃止した後も持病は残っている。

2.Customers are welcome to linger over coffee until around midnight.

お客様はできるだけコーヒーを飲んで夜中まで滞在することができます。

3.Don 't linger away your holidays.Try to find something useful to do.

休日を無駄にしないで、できるだけ有意義なことを探してやってください。

4.His last words still linger in our ears.

彼の臨終の言葉が耳に残っている。

5.Larry didn 't linger over his work completely，but he did linger over it to some extent.

ローリーは完全には研磨されていないが、多少はある。