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Land

See also: land, länd, lǟnd, and -land

English

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Land

  1. 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.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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“Heath-dweller; pasture-dweller”, probably from lëndë (“matter, timber”), connected to lëndinë (“pasture, grassland”).

Proper noun

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Land m

  1. a male given name

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Declension of Land
singular
indefinite definite
nominative Land Landi
accusative Landin
dat./abl. Landi Landit

Alemannic German

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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).

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Land n (plural Länder)

  1. land
  2. country

German

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /lant/, /lɑnt/
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  • Rhymes: -ant

Noun

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Land n (strong, genitive Landes or Lands, plural Länder or (elevated or poetic) Lande, diminutive Ländchen n or Ländlein n)

  1. country (territory of a nation)
  2. state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
  3. land (real estate or landed property)
  4. land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
  5. country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)

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  • 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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Declension of Land [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Land die Länder, Lande2
genitive eines des Landes, Lands der Länder, Lande2
dative einem dem Land, Lande1 den Ländern, Landen2
accusative ein das Land die Länder, Lande2

1Now rare, see notes.
2Elevated or poetic.

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Descendants

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  • → Ladin: lont
  • → Polish: ląd

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Hunsrik

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Alternative forms

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  • Lant (Altenhofen spelling)
  • lant (Wiesemann spelling)

Etymology

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    From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- + *-om.[1]

    Cognate with German, Luxembourgish, and Pennsylvania German Land.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈlant/
    • Rhymes: -ant
    • Syllabification: Land

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    Land n (plural Land or Lenner, diminutive Lendche)

    1. land (part of Earth not covered by water)
    2. land (real estate or landed property)
      Synonym: Terreno
    3. (uncountable) land; soil
      Near-synonym: Grund
      Er zackerd das Land.
      He ploughs the land.
    4. (uncountable) terrain
      Evenes Land
      Flat terrain
    5. country
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    References

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    1. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Land”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 100, column 2

    Limburgish

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. Compare the variant landj.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈla˨nt/, [ˈlɑ(ː)˨nt]
    • Rhymes: -ant

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    Land n (plural Länder or Län or Lande, dative singular Lan or Land, diminutive Ländsche) (German-based spelling)

    1. (uncountable) land
    2. (countable) country (territory of a nation)
    3. (countable) state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
    4. (countable) land (real estate or landed property)
    5. (uncountable) land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
    6. (uncountable) country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)

    Luxembourgish

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    Etymology

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    From Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

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    Land n (plural Länner)

    1. (uncountable) land
    2. country

    Pennsylvania German

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    Etymology

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    From Middle High German lant. Compare German Land, Dutch land, English land.

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    Land n (plural Lenner)

    1. land
    2. country
    3. soil, garden bed
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