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English
Etymology
From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- + land.
Pronunciation
Adverb
aland (not comparable)
- (obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water.
c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. , London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, , published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea […] Why, as Men doe a-land.
- (now rare, poetic) To the land; ashore.
c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846:Henry the Eighth […] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge […]
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Northern Kurdish
Verb
aland
- first/second/third-person singular/plural preterite of alandin
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą.
Noun
āland n
- island
Inflection