Russian
Theoretically, there can be words with unlimited length, for example: прапрапра...дедушка (praprapra...dedushka, great great great...grandfather). Probably one of the longest originally-Russian word is превысокомногорассмотрительствующий (prevysokomnogorassmotritelstvuyushchy) which contains 35 letters, or its dative case form превысокомногорассмотрительствующему (prevysokomnogorassmotritelstvuyushchemu, with 36 letters), which can be an example of excessively official vocabulary of 19th century. The longest numeral compounds, such as Тысячевосьмисотвосьмидесятидевятимикрометровый (Tysyachevosmisotvosmidesyatimikrometrovy), which is an adjective containing 46 letters, meaning "1889-micrometer".
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