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English

land

/lænd/
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

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    Origin

    Etymology 1

    From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

    Cognates

    Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), Yola lhoan, lloan, loan, londe, lone (“land”), North Frisian loun, luin, lun, Lön, lönj, löön (“land”), Saterland Frisian Lound (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Limburgish Land, landj, Laïnt (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), Luxembourgish and German Land (“land, country, state”), Vilamovian łaond (“land”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

    Etymology 2

    From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant.

    From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Lineage

    • inheritedMiddle Englishlond
      • inheritedOld Englishland “land”
        • inheritedProto-West Germanic*land “land”
    • inheritedMiddle English*land “urine”
    • inheritedOld Englishhland “urine”
      • inheritedProto-West Germanic*hland
        • inheritedProto-Germanic*hlandą “urine”

    Related: Scots laund, Yola lhoan, North Frisian loun, Saterland Frisian Lound, West Frisian lân, Limburgish Land, Dutch land, German Land, Vilamovian łaond, Swedish land, Old Irish lann, Welsh llan, Breton lann, Old Church Slavonic лѧдо, Proto-Slavic *lędo, French lande, Albanian lëndinë

    Meanings

    noun
    1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
    2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
    3. A country or region.
    4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
    5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
    6. Realm, domain.
    verb
    1. To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
    2. To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
    3. To come into rest.
    4. To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
    5. To bring to land.
    6. To capture or arrest.

    Sources

    • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
    • Wiktionary: land