sulung

• suling

Learned borrowing from Old English sulung, from sulh (“plough, ploughland”).

sulung (plural sulungs)

1. (historical) A unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate.
   • 2000, Nicholas Brooks, Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400–1066, →ISBN, page 57:

     The counting of sulungs (as of hides) is a horrible task on which no two scholars agree, and it is not surprising that before the age of the computer Jolliffe made slips and that his desire to find eighty-sulung units sometimes overrode the evidence or the geographical probabilities.

sulung

1. firstborn, born first in a family

Cognate to Tagalog sulong

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuluŋ/ [ˈsuː.luŋ]

súlung

1. to advance