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English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Land
- A surname from Middle English.
2012, Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, page 82:After the success of Secret of Monkey Island (1990), composer Michael Land longed for a more flexible system to integrate his music into a game.
Derived terms
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
“Heath-dweller; pasture-dweller”, probably from lëndë (“matter, timber”), connected to lëndinë (“pasture, grassland”).
Proper noun
Land m
- a male given name
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. Cognate with German Land, Dutch, English, and Danish land, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).
Pronunciation
Noun
Land n (plural Länder)
- land
- country
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
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”). Compare Dutch, English, and Danish land, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).
Pronunciation
Noun
Land n (strong, genitive Landes or Lands, plural Länder or (elevated or poetic) Lande, diminutive Ländchen n or Ländlein n)
- country (territory of a nation)
- state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
- land (real estate or landed property)
- land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
- country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)
Usage notes
- The normal plural is Länder. The plural Lande is elevated or poetic, and is occasionally used in modern German to mean "countryside, vast areas", e.g. die weiten Lande Sibiriens – "the wide lands of Siberia". It is also found in fixed expressions such as Niederlande (“Netherlands”).
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Further reading
Hunsrik
Etymology
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
Noun
Land n (plural Lenner)
- land
- country
Further reading
Limburgish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. Compare the variant landj.
Pronunciation
Noun
Land n (plural Länder or Län or Lande, dative singular Lan or Land, diminutive Ländsche) (German-based spelling)
- (uncountable) land
- (countable) country (territory of a nation)
- (countable) state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
- (countable) land (real estate or landed property)
- (uncountable) land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
- (uncountable) country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.
Pronunciation
Noun
Land n (plural Länner)
- (uncountable) land
- country
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German lant. Compare German Land, Dutch land, English land.
Noun
Land n (plural Lenner)
- land
- country
- soil, garden bed