Egyptland
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English Egiptelond, Egipte-lond, from Old English Egipta land, Egypta land (“the land of the Egyptians”), equivalent to Egypt + land. Compare Dutch Egypteland, Icelandic Egyptaland.
Proper noun edit
Egyptland
- (rare, nonstandard) The land of the Egyptians; Egypt
- 1937, David Adams Leeming, Jake Page, Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology:
- Go down, Moses, / Way down in Egyptland / Tell old Pharaoh / To let my people go.
- 1941, Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee, The Negro caravan: writings by American Negroes:
- It required no stretch of imagination to see the trials of the Israelites as paralleling the trials of the slaves, Pharaoh and his army as oppressors, and Egyptland as the South.
- 2004, R. J. Nimmo, The Ancient Egyptian Ennead:
- This was a fortunate development as otherwise work on a new land they were starting at the time, Egyptland, would have been stopped and the whole universe likely destroyed as a result.
- 2004, Bruce Vermazen, That Moaning Saxophone:
- Two of the numbers, “Alexandria” and “Fatima,” fall into the same “oriental” category as “Egyptland,” but both offer a lot more musical interest.