lond

See also: Lond.

Faroese edit

lond n pl

lond (plural londes)

An independent nation, country or realm.
A tribe, folk or race; an ethnicity
A land; territory or locality
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 22–28:
  Ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of ſpeche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand ȝeer, and wordes tho /That hadden pris now wonder nyce and ſtraunge /Us thenketh hem, and ȝet thei ſpake hem so / And ſpedde as wel in loue as men now do / Ek forto wynnen loue in ſondry ages / In ſondry londes, ſondry ben vſages […]
  You also know that the form of language is in flux; / within a thousand years, words / that had currency; really weird and bizarre / they seem to us now, but they still spoke them / and accomplished as much in love as men do now. / As for winning love across ages and / across nations, there are lots of usages […]
A subdivision or province of a nation.
A property; a plot of land.
Agricultural land; land that is suitable for growing crops.
Planet Earth; the world.
The earth, ground, or soil (also as one of the medieval elements)

Declension of lond

“lōnd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-22.

From londe (noun).

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