Land
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ænd
Proper noun
Land
- 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.
Derived terms
Albanian
Alternative forms
Alemannic German
Etymology
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).
German
Alternative forms
- Landt, Lande
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /lant/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ant
Noun
Land n (strong, genitive Landes or Lands, plural Länder or (elevated or poetic) Lande, diminutive Ländchen n or Ländlein n)
- country (territory of a nation)
- state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
- land (real estate or landed property)
- land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
- country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)
Usage notes
- 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”).
Declension
Hyponyms
- See: Category:de:Countries
- Abendland
- Morgenland
- Neuland
- Oberland
- Unterland
- Zweistromland
Derived terms
- Ackerland
- Adélieland
- aller Herren Ländern (aus aller Herren Ländern, in aller Herren Ländern, nach aller Herren Ländern), aller Herren Länder (durch aller Herren Länder, für aller Herren Länder, but also aus aller Herren Länder, in aller Herren Länder)
- Ausland
- Bergland
- Bindestrichland
- Brachland
- Bundesland
- Feuchtland
- Flachland
- Grasland
- Grünland
- Heimatland
- Herkunftsland
- Hochland
- Inland
- Landesgrenze
- Landesteil
- Landesvater
- Landesverfassung
- Landesverrat
- landlos
- Landstreicher
- Landstrich
- Moorland
- Niemandsland
- Ödland
- Sumpfland
- Tiefland
- Trockenland
- Ursprungsland
- Vorzeigeland
Related terms
- abendländisch
- alpenländisch
- Altisländisch
- altisländisch
- ausländisch
- binnenländisch
- ermländisch
- estländisch
- falkländisch
- festländisch
- feuerländisch
- finnländisch
- fremdländisch
- gotländisch
- grönländisch
- Grönländisch
- halbausländisch
- hochländisch
- holländisch
- Holländisch
- inländisch
- irländisch
- Isländisch
- isländisch
- jütländisch
- kapholländisch
- Kapholländisch
- lappländisch
- livländisch
- mailändisch
- morgenländisch
- mutterländisch
- neufundländisch
- Neuisländisch
- neuisländisch
- neuseeländisch
- nichtholländisch
- nichtisländisch
- niederländisch
- nordländisch
- Oberländisch
- oberländisch
- ostländisch
- rheinländisch
- rußländisch
- russländisch
- saarländisch
- Samländisch
- samländisch
- südländisch
- swasiländisch
- thailändisch
- vaterländisch
- westländisch
Further reading
- “Land” in Duden online
- “Land” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Land” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Hunsrik
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lant/
Further reading
Limburgish
Alternative forms
- land (Veldeke spelling)
- Laïnt (Eupen)
- Landj, Lond, Lound
- Lank, Lonk (East Limburgish-Ripuarian)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. Compare the variant landj.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈla˨nt/, [ˈlɑ(ː)˨nt]
- Rhymes: -ant
Noun
Land n (plural Länder or Län or Lande, dative singular Lan or Land, diminutive Ländsche) (German-based spelling)
- (uncountable) land
- (countable) country (territory of a nation)
- (countable) state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
- (countable) land (real estate or landed property)
- (uncountable) land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
- (uncountable) country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɑnt/
- Rhymes: -ɑnt