aland

See also: Aland, Áland, Alánd, and Åland

English edit

From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- +‎ land.

aland (not comparable)

(obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water. [13th–19th c.]
- 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. [from 14th c.]
- 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 […]