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Nov. 1st, 2003 06:00 pmheadlong, rashly, rash. (English.) Middle English hedling, heuedling, hedlinges. Thus the suffix is adverbial, answering to Anglo-Saxon suffix -l-unga, really a double suffix. Cf. Anglo-Saxon grund-lunga, from the ground, eall-unga, entirely, faer-inga, suddenly.