land

See also: Land, länd, lǟnd, and -land
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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lănd, IPA(key): /lænd/
    • (US) IPA(key): [ɫeə̯nd], [ɫɛə̯nd]
      • Audio (US):(file)
    • (Canada) IPA(key): [ɫɛə̯nd], [læ(ː)nd]
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [lænd]
    • (General Australian) IPA(key): [leːnd], [lænd]
    • (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): [land]
  • Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
    Proto-Indo-European *-om
    Proto-Germanic *landą
    Proto-West Germanic *land
    Old English land
    Middle English lond
    English land

    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”).

    Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). 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”).

    Noun

    land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

    1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
      Most insects live on land.
    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.
      There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
    3. A country or region.
      They come from a faraway land.
    4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
    5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
      wet land
      good or bad land for growing potatoes
    6. (often in combination) Realm, domain.
      I'm going to Disneyland.
      Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
    8. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
      Synonym: furlong
    10. (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
      Synonym: furlong
      Coordinate terms: headland, furlong
    11. (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
      He got an awful land when the police arrived.
    12. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
    13. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
      • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record, page 72:
        Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.
    14. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
      Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
    15. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
    16. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.[1]
    17. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
      1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
        • 2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16:
          The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
        • 2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller):
          The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
    18. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
    Hyponyms
    Derived terms
    Translations

    Verb

    land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

    1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
      The plane is about to land.
    2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
      • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:
        10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
    3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
    4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
      • 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development‎[1], volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 303, column 1:
        Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen. […] A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders.
    5. (transitive) To bring to land.
      It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
      Use the net to land the fish.
    6. (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
      • 1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 3:
        `He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.'
    7. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
      She landed a job at the company.
      • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎[2]:
        As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
      • 2024 May 1, “Network News: Danes plan fully automated trains”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 18:
        Siemens has landed a contract to upgrade signalling on the entire 170km (105-mile) S-Bane suburban network in Copenhagen to pave the way for fully automated trains.
    8. (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
      Too ugly to ever land a chick
    9. (transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.
      If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match
    10. (intransitive) (of a punch) To connect
      If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!
    11. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
      Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
      • 2023 January 13, Anonymous ("Jackal Comment"), 11:08 from the start, in CORRECTIONS Episode 68: Week of Monday, January 9 (Late Night with Seth Meyers)‎[3], YouTube:
        We told an Amelia Earhart joke yesterday- did not go great with the audience. Someone wrote: "You can't be surprised when an Amelia Earhart joke doesn't land."
    Derived terms
    terms derived from the verb land
    Translations
    to arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water

    Etymology 2

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

    Noun

    land (uncountable)

    1. lant; urine

    References

    1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Land”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

    Afrikaans

    Etymology

    From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]
    • Audio:(file)

    Noun

    land (plural lande)

    1. country; nation

    Danish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /lanˀ/, [lanˀ]
    • Rhymes: -and

    Etymology 1

    From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, cognate with English land, German Land.

    Noun

    land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

    1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)
      Synonyms: stat, nation
    2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
    3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
    4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise
    Usage notes

    In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

    Declension
    Declension of land
    neuter
    gender     		singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative land landet lande landene
    genitive lands landets landes landenes
    Derived terms
    Terms derived from land (“country, nation”)
    Terms derived from land (“countryside”)
    Terms derived from land (“(dry) land”)
    Terms derived from land (“amusement park”)
    • badeland
    • legeland
    • Legoland
    • sommerland
    • vandland

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    land

    1. imperative of lande

    Dutch

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /lɑnt/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: land
    • Rhymes: -ɑnt

    Etymology 1

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

    Noun

    land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

    1. land, country, realm, territory
      • 1967, E. Rijpma & F. G. Schuringa, edited by Jan van Bakel, Nederlandse spraakkunst, 21st ed., p. 24, § 8 (also online at dbnl.org):
        In ons land werd door de Westgermaanse volksstammen het Nederduits (Nederfrankisch en Saksisch) en het Fries gesproken.
        Het Nederfrankisch wordt wel verdeeld in: (1) het Hollands-Frankisch (Hollands, Utrechts, Westveluws, Zeeuws, Westvlaams); (2) het Brabants-Frankisch (Westbetuws, Westbrabants, Antwerps, Kempens, Leuvens, Aalsters, Oostvlaams); (3) het Limburgs-Frankisch (Gelders-Limburgs, Limburgs, Oostbrabants).
        Het Saksisch (Gelders-Overijssels, Oostveluws, Drents, Gronings) wordt gesproken in het noordoosten van ons land, van Groningen tot de Oude Ijssel.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)
    3. (Netherlands, Antilles) a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; the territorial government of an overseas constituent country
      • 2022 December 6, Oscar van Dam, John Samson, “Gerechtshof: lhbt’s mogen trouwen op Aruba en Curaçao [Appellate court: LGBT people allowed to marry in Aruba and Curaçao]”, in Caribisch Netwerk‎[4], retrieved 14 December 2022:
        Het zijn twee verschillende uitspraken die vandaag door het gerechtshof achter elkaar zijn gedaan. Voor Aruba gaat het om het een zaak van Fundacion Orguyo Aruba en twee vrouwen tegen het Land Aruba. Voor Curaçao gaat het om een zaak van Human Rights Caribbean Foundation en twee vrouwen tegen het Land Curaçao.
        Today's rulings are two separate ones handed down by the appellate court back-to-back. For Aruba, it involves a case brought by Fundacion Orguyo Aruba and two women against the government of Aruba. For Curaçao, it involves a case brought by Human Rights Caribbean Foundation and two women against the government of Curaçao.
    4. (history, chiefly in compounds) the territorial government or state authority in a Dutch colony or overseas territory in the West Indies
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Afrikaans: land
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
    • Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
    • → Sranan Tongo: lanti (see there for further descendants)
    • >? Javanese: ꦭꦤ꧀ (lan)

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    land

    1. inflection of landen:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
      3. imperative

    Elfdalian

    Etymology

    From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

    Noun

    land n

    1. country; nation

    Declension

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    Declension of land
    neuter singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative land landeð land landę
    accusative land landeð land landę
    dative lande landę landum landum(e)
    genitive — — — —

    Faroese

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /lant/
    • Rhymes: -ant

    Etymology 1

    From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

    Noun

    land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

    1. land
    2. coast
    3. country, nation
    4. ground, soil
    5. the state
    Declension
    Declension of land (n8)
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative land landið lond londini
    accusative land landið lond londini
    dative landi landinum londum londunum
    genitive lands landsins landa landanna

    Etymology 2

    From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą, from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

    Noun

    land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

    1. (uncountable) urine
    Declension
    n8 singular
    indefinite definite
    nominative land landið
    accusative land landið
    dative landi landinum
    genitive lands landsins

    French

    Noun

    land m (plural lands or länder)

    1. land (region of Germany or Austria)

    Gothic

    Romanization

    land

    1. romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳

    Icelandic

    Etymology

    From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /lant/
    • Rhymes: -ant

    Noun

    land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

    1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
    2. (countable) country
      Japan er fallegt land.
      Japan is a beautiful country.
    3. (uncountable) countryside, country
      Ég bý úti á landi.
      I live in the country.
    4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
    5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate
      Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.
      I own this land and everything on it.

    Declension

    Declension of land (neuter)
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative land landið lönd löndin
    accusative land landið lönd löndin
    dative landi landinu löndum löndunum
    genitive lands landsins landa landanna

    Derived terms

    Middle English

    Noun

    land

    1. alternative form of lond

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /lɑnː/
    • Rhymes: -ɑnː

    Etymology 1

    From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

    Noun

    land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

    1. country
    2. land
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    land

    1. imperative of lande

    References

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /lanː/, /land/

    Etymology 1

    From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

    Noun

    land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

    1. country
      Noreg er eit land i nord.
      Norway is a country in the north.
    2. land
      Det var mangel på land for jordbruk.
      There was a lack of land for agriculture.
    3. coast, dry land
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

    From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą.

    Noun

    land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

    1. urine from livestock

    References

    Old Danish

    Etymology

    From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

    Noun

    land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

    1. land
      • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue:
        Mæth logh skal land byggæs.
        With law shall land be built.

    Declension

    Declension of land (Scanian system)
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative land landit land landin
    accusative land landit land landin
    dative landi landinu landum landunum
    genitive lanz lanzins landa landanna
    The declension is unstable and should be treated as a guide. The case system was gradually being simplified from four to two cases. Even some nominative markers were sporadically kept in the Scanian dialect, although they mostly were replaced with the accusative endings from Old Norse.

    Descendants

    Old English

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. See there for more.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /lɑnd/, /lɔnd/

      Noun

      land n

      1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
        • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
          An. DCCCCXLV Hēr Ēadmund cing oferhergode eall Cumbraland, ⁊ hit lēt eall tō Malculme Sċotta cinge on þæt ġerād þæt hē wǣre his midwyrhta æġþer ġe on sǣ ġe on lande.
          Year 945 In this year King Edmund overran all of Cumberland, and let it all to King Malcom of Scotland, on the condition that he would be his cooperator on both sea and land.
      2. a country
      3. region within a country: district, province
      4. the country, countryside
      5. owned or tilled land, an estate

      Usage notes

      • Using the word land is the most common way to form country names. This can be done in one of two ways:
        • Prefixing the name of a people to the word land. Ex: Franca (“French person”) → Francland (“France”), Swēo (“Swede”) → Swēoland (“Sweden”), and *Unger (“a Hungarian”) → Ungerland (“Hungary”).
        • Prefacing land with the genitive plural form of a people, producing the literal meaning “land of ____ people.” Ex: Egypta land (“Egypt”, literally “land of the Egyptians”), Siġelhearwena land (“Ethiopia”, literally “land of the Ethiopians”).
      • However, country names can also be formed other ways. For instance, words other than land are used: Dene (“a Dane”) → Denemearc (“Denmark”, literally “Dane borderland”). It is also very common to use the name of a people for the country they inhabit: On þām dagum wæs Alexander ġeboren on Crēcum swā swā miċel ȳst cōme ofer ealne middanġeard (“In those days, Alexander was born in Greece [lit. in the Greeks] like a great storm coming over the whole world”), Ymb twā ġēar þæs þe hē cōm of Francum, hē ġefōr (”Two years after he came from France [lit. from the Franks], he died”). In addition, country names are sometimes loaned directly from Latin: Arabia, Isrāhēl, Italia, Syria. Finally, some country names are simply idiomatic: Norþweġ (“Norway”, literally “north way”).
      • Unlike most words, land undergoes i-umlaut when combined with the suffix -isċ: inlendisċ (“native”), uplendisċ (“rural”).

      Declension

      Strong a-stem:

      singular plural
      nominative land land
      accusative land land
      genitive landes landa
      dative lande landum

      Derived terms

      Derived prefix terms
      • landādl f (“nostalgia for one's homeland”)
      • landāgend m (“landowner”)
      • landār f (“land holdings, a landed estate”)
      • landbegang m (“land tilling or dwelling”)
      • landbegenġa m (“husbandman, farmer”)
      • landbōc f (“land charter”)
      • landbrǣċe m (“land breaking or ploughing”)
      • landbūend f (“a settlement, colony”)
      • landbūend m (“husbandman, a native”)
      • landbūende (“dwelling in a land, living on earth”)
      • landbūnes f (“a settlement, a colony”)
      • landċēap m (“fine or tax on bought land”)
      • landcofa m (“the old city of Shechem”)
      • landefne n (“amount of land holdings”)
      • landfæsten n (“a land fastness, a stronghold”)
      • landfeoh n (“a land rent or tax”)
      • landfierd f (“land army”)
      • landfierding f (“terrestrial military operations”)
      • landfolc n (“the people of the land”)
      • landfruma m (“prince”)
      • landġehwearf n (“land swap”)
      • landġemaca m (“neighbor”)
      • landġemǣre n (“border”)
      • landġemierċe n (“border”)
      • landġesċeaft n (“the earth's creation & created things”)
      • landġeweorc n (“a land's main stronghold”)
      • landġewyrpe n (“earthen heaps cast up”)
      • landhæbbende (“landowning, land-having as a ruler”)
      • landhæfen f (“land holdings”)
      • landhere m (“land army”)
      • landhlāford m (“landlord”)
      • landhredding f (“redemption of mortgaged land”)
      • landielf f (“land elf”)
      • landlagu f (“law in a district”)
      • landlēas (“landless”)
      • landlēod m (“an inhabitant or the people of a land”)
      • landlēoda m (“a native of a land”)
      • landlyre m (“loss of land”)
      • landmann m (“a native of a land”)
      • landmearc f (“boundary of a land or an estate”)
      • landmearc (“belonging to a land's boundaries”)
      • landmearca m (“a territory”)
      • landopenung f (“a breaking up of land”)
      • landrǣden f (“district or country ordinance, disposition, or institution”)
      • landrest f (“grave”)
      • landrīċa f (“landlord”)
      • landrīċe n (“territory”)
      • landriht n (“the law of the land”)
      • landsǣta m (“settler, colonist”)
      • landsċeap n (“district or swath of land, landscape”)
      • landsċearu f (“a share or deal of land”)
      • landsċipe m (“a region or swath of land”)
      • landseten f (“land possession or occupation thereof”)
      • landsetla m (“a settler or tenant”)
      • landsidu m (“custom of the land”)
      • landsittende (“occupying land”)
      • landsōcn f (“land or country seeking”)
      • landspēd f (“land holdings”)
      • landspēdiġ (“rich in land holdings or estates”)
      • landsplott m (“a small plot of ground”)
      • landstede m (“a land”)
      • landstyċċe n (“a small plot of land”)
      • landwaru f (“people of land, a land”)
      • landweard m (“the warden of a land, a prince”)
      • landwela m (“the earth's wealth”)
      • lendan (“to land”)
      Derived suffix terms
      • ælmesland m (“land bequeathed in frankalmoigne, i.e. rich in land is rich in soul”)
      • ātland (“land for the growing of oats, oatland”)
      • bēanland (“land for the growing of beans, beanland”)
      • behātland (“promised land”)
      • belandian (“to deprive of land, dispossess”)
      • belendan (“to deprive of land, dispossess”)
      • bēodland (“land to defray food consumption, as in a monastery”)
      • berland (“land for the growing of barley, bearland”)
      • bōcland (“freehold”)
      • bondeland (“bond or leased land under written conditions”)
      • burgland n (“city-land, urban landscape”)
      • būrland (“peasant land”)
      • ċēapland (“bought land, compare to landcēap”)
      • ċiricland (“church-land, land belonging to the church”)
      • dūnland (“down or hilly land”)
      • ealdland (“long untilled or unploughed land”)
      • eardland (“fatherland”)
      • earningland (“land earned or made freehold”)
      • efnland (“even land, plains”)
      • eleland (“a strange or foreign land”)
      • eringlond n (“arable land”)
      • etelond n (“pasture land”)
      • ēþelland (“homeland”)
      • fæstland (“fortified land”)
      • feldland (“a field or plain, antonym to dūnland”)
      • fenland (“fenland”)
      • feohland (“pasture land”)
      • feorland n (“a far-off land”)
      • folcland (“land of the people”)
      • fōstorland (“land for fostering”)
      • friþland (“a land at peace with one's own”)
      • gafolland (“tenant land”)
      • ġebūrland (“peasant land/farmland”)
      • ġedālland (“land that may get owned by separate people, divided common land”)
      • ġehātland (“promised land”)
      • ġehlotland (“land doled out by lot”)
      • ġelanda m (“fellow countryman”)
      • ġelandian (“to land”)
      • ġenēatland (“tenant land”)
      • ġerēfland (“tributary land”)
      • hǣþfeldland (“moorland or heathland”)
      • hēafodland (“a headland or boundary”)
      • hēahland (“the high ground”)
      • hēahlandrīċa (“a justice of the peace”)
      • hereġeatland (“obligatory bequest of land to a lord or king”)
      • hwǣteland (“land for the growing of wheat”)
      • īeġland (“island”)
      • ierfeland (“heritable land”)
      • ierþland (“arable land”)
      • inland (“Demesne land”)
      • lǣnland (“loaned or leased land”)
      • līnland (“land for the growing of flax or linseed”)
      • mǣdland m (“meadow”)
      • mæstland (“land for the forthteeing of mast, i.e. tree nuts”)
      • mearcland (“borderland, or wasteland beyond the tilled land, marshland”)
      • merisċland (“marshland”)
      • mōrland (“moorland, the wild & hilly hinterland”)
      • muntland (“mountainous land”)
      • mynsterland (“land belonging to the monastery”)
      • nēahland (“neighboring country”)
      • norþland (“a northern land”)
      • rēfland (“sundorġerēfland, i.e. particular tributary lands”)
      • sacerdland (“land set aside for priests”)
      • sǣland (“maritime district”)
      • sandland (“the seashore”)
      • sċrūdland (“a land grant to buy clothing”)
      • sīdland (“wide open land”)
      • sundorland (“private land”)
      • sūþland (“a southern land”)
      • tēoþungland (“land subject to tithe payment”)
      • timberland (“timberland”)
      • tūnland (“land of a farm or estate”)
      • þēodland (“a populated region or country”)
      • unfriþland (“a hostile country”)
      • unland (“what is not land: sea, marsh, etc.”)
      • uppeland (“rural country away from town”)
      • ūtanlandes (“abroad”)
      • ūtland (“a foreign country or land”)
      • wealhland (“a foreign country or land”)
      • wīdland (“broad land, the earth's surface”)
      • wīnland (“grapevine land, wine producing region”)
      Derived national terms

      Descendants

      References

      Old Irish

      Noun

      land ?

      1. alternative spelling of lann

      Mutation

      Mutation of land
      radical lenition nasalization
      land
      also lland in h-prothesis environments      		 land
      pronounced with /l-/      		 land
      also lland

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

      Old Norse

      Etymology

      From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

      Noun

      land n (genitive lands, plural lǫnd)

      1. land

      Declension

      Declension of land (strong a-stem)
      neuter singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative land landit lǫnd lǫndin
      accusative land landit lǫnd lǫndin
      dative landi landinu lǫndum lǫndunum
      genitive lands landsins landa landanna

      Descendants

      Further reading

      • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “land”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

      Old Saxon

      Etymology

      From Proto-West Germanic *land. Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /lɑnd/

      Noun

      land n

      1. land

      Declension

      land (neuter a-stem)
      singular plural
      nominative land land
      accusative land land
      genitive landes landō
      dative lande landun
      instrumental — —

      Descendants

      • Middle Low German: lant
        • Low German: Land
          • Dutch Low Saxon: laand
          • German Low German: Land
        • Plautdietsch: Launt

      References

      Köbler, Gerhard (2014) Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎[6] (in German), 5th edition

      Old Swedish

      Etymology

      From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

      Noun

      land n

      1. land

      Declension

      Declension of land (strong a-stem)
      neuter singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative land landit land landin
      accusative land landit land landin
      dative landi, lande landinu, landeno landum, landom landumin, landomen
      genitive lands landsins landa landanna

      Descendants

      Polish

      Etymology

      Borrowed from German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈlant/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -ant
      • Syllabification: land

      Noun

      land m inan

      1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
        Synonym: kraj związkowy
        Coordinate terms: stan, kraj (“krai”)
      2. (Poznań) countryside (rural area)
        Synonyms: prowincja, wieś

      Declension

      Declension of land
      singular plural
      nominative land landy
      genitive landu landów
      dative landowi landom
      accusative land landy
      instrumental landem landami
      locative landzie landach
      vocative landzie landy

      Further reading

      • land in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • land in Polish dictionaries at PWN

      Romanian

      Etymology

      Borrowed from German Land.

      Noun

      land n (plural landuri)

      1. land (German and Austrian province)

      Declension

      Declension of land
      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative land landul landuri landurile
      genitive-dative land landului landuri landurilor
      vocative landule landurilor

      Spanish

      Etymology

      Borrowed from German Land.

      Noun

      land m (plural lands)

      1. one of the federal states of Germany
        • 2020 January 29, “El coronavirus ya se transmite fuera de China y se teme por su afectación al Mobile”, in La Vanguardia‎[7]:
          Alemania confirmó ayer los cuatro primeros casos de coronavirus de Wuhan en su territorio, todos pertenecientes a la misma empresa de componentes de automóvil del land alemán de Baviera.
          Germany yesterday confirmed the first four cases of Wuhan coronavirus on its territory, all belonging to the same automotive component company from the German land of Bavaria.

      Further reading

      Swedish

      Etymology

      From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /land/, [l̪an̪ːd̪], (colloquial) /lan/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -and

      Noun

      land n

      1. a country, a land (independent political entity)
        Sverige är ett land
        Sweden is a country
        länderna i EU
        the countries in the EU
        främmande länder
        foreign lands
        fjärran länder
        distant lands

      Declension

      Declension of land
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite land lands
      definite landet landets
      plural indefinite länder länders
      definite länderna ländernas

      See also

      Noun

      land n

      1. (uncountable) land (as opposed to sea)
        Om man inte har lust att vara på en båt så kan man vara på land istället
        If you don't feel like being on a boat, you can be on land instead
        land och hav
        land and sea
        ha land i sikte
        have land in sight
        Land i sikte!
        Land ahoy!
      2. (usually in the definite) countryside, country
        Vi bor på landet
        We live in the countryside
        Vi är ute på landet
        We are out in the country
        livet på landet
        life in the countryside
        stad och land
        town and country
        laglöst land
        lawless land
        • 2007, Laser Inc, “Det var en gång en fågel [Once upon a time, there was a bird]”‎[8]:
          Det var en gång en liten fågel. Ja, en fågel. Han bodde på landet, och Roger hette han. Han ville gärna leka med sina vänner, med sina vänner, men det fick inte han. Men denna historia slutar sorgligt, för Roger blev skjuten, skjuten i magen av gamle jägar'n [jägaren] Pär. Han ville hem och äta, äta en fågel med lite potäter, men Roger hann iväg.
          Once upon a time, there was a little bird. Yes, a bird. He lived in the countryside, and Roger was his name. He wanted to play with his friends ["He wanted gladly to play with his friends," in the sense of, "He wanted, with keenness, to play with his friends" – the translation skips the gärna as it doesn't make much difference to the meaning], with his friends, but [that – to play with his friends] he didn't get to. But this story ends sadly, because Roger was shot, shot in the stomach by old hunter Pär ["den gamle jägaren Pär" matches "the old hunter Pär" – skipping "den" makes "jägaren Pär" sound lexicalized]. He wanted to go home and eat, eat a bird with some potatoes, but Roger got away [in time].

      Usage notes

      See mark for some other senses of land.

      Declension

      Declension of land
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite land lands
      definite landet landets
      plural indefinite — —
      definite — —

      See also

      Noun

      land n

      1. a smaller piece of land for small-scale cultivation; a patch, a garden plot, etc.
        ett jordgubbsland
        a strawberry patch
        ett potatisland
        a potato patch
        påta i landet
        potter in the garden plot

      Declension

      Declension of land
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite land lands
      definite landet landets
      plural indefinite land lands
      definite landen landens

      Derived terms

      Derived terms

      References

      Zealandic

      Etymology

      From Middle Dutch lant.

      Noun

      land n (plural [please provide])

      1. land
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