different between longer vs bigger

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l??.??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?l??.??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long +? -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian laanger (“longer”), West Frisian langer (“longer”), Dutch langer (“longer”), German länger (“longer”), Danish længere (“longer”), Swedish längre (“longer”), Icelandic lengri (“longer”).

Adjective

longer

1. comparative form of long: more long

Adverb

longer

1. comparative form of long: more long

Derived terms

• no longer

Etymology 2

long (“yearn”) +? -er

Noun

longer (plural longers)

1. One who longs or yearns for something.

French

Etymology

From long +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??.?e/

Verb

longer

1. to walk along, run along

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written longe- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

See also

• border
• côtoyer

Further reading

• “longer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• grêlon

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b???/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b???/
• Rhymes: -???(r)

Adjective

bigger

1. comparative form of big: more big
   • 1812, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146:

     That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger, and most stronger party, […]

Translations

Verb

bigger (third-person singular simple present biggers, present participle biggering, simple past and past participle biggered)

1. (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.

See also

• biggers

Anagrams

• brigge