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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * /bɪsˈlaŋ/^(Wiktionary)
+ * Also: /ˈbɪslaŋ/^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''bislang'''^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is shortened from the older [[m|de|bissolang]], a fusion of [[bis]] “until”, [[so]] and [[lang]] “long”.^(Kluge 2011|126)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Wiktionary) Kluge dates it to the 16th century and marks it as a word of northern Germany.^(Kluge 2011|126)^(Pfeifer 1993)
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+ Its first part is [[gmh|biz]], which probably grew together from [[gmh|bī]] and [[gmh|ze]], the ancestors of [[bei]] and [[zu]].^(Kluge 2011|126)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Duden 7 2020|151)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The revised Grimm dictionary gives as its first quotation a verse by Gottfried August Bürger from about 1770–1780, where it means “until now”.^(DWB2|5, 302)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ The Grimms' dictionary noted that the word was missing from all dictionaries but was much liked in the speech of business people, above all in Hanover, where it rendered Latin “adhuc”, “up to now”.^(DWB|2, 47) Wiktionary describes it as at first chiefly northern German; it spread more widely in the 19th century but is still rare in Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol.^(Wiktionary)
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+ The quotations of the revised Grimm dictionary show it in journalism and scholarly prose from the 19th century on, from Friedrich Engels in 1844 to newspapers of the 1980s and 2000s.^(DWB2|5, 302) The Duden dictionary still labels it regional and explains it by [[bisher]].^(Duden GWDS 1999)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 16th century – ''bislang'' is shortened from ''bissolang''.^(Kluge 2011|126)^(Pfeifer 1993)
+ * c. 1770–1780 – Bürger uses ''bislang'' in verse.^(DWB2|5, 302)
+ * 1844 – Engels uses it in a newspaper article.^(DWB2|5, 302)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adverb===
+ # ''(chiefly Germany)'' So far, until now, [[m|en|hitherto]]; the same as [[bisher]]: ''Bislang hat sich niemand auf die Anzeige gemeldet.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[bis]]
+ * [[bisher]]
+ * [[lang]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}