ląd

Inherited from Old Polish ląd, land, borrowed from Middle High German in the 14th century. The original etymon is probably lende (“landing place”), from Old High German lentī (cf. regional German Lände), rather than lant (“land”), though the latter has influenced the sense. Both eventually derived from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔnt
• Syllabification: ląd
• Homophone: lont

ląd m inan

1. land; continent (area of the earth not covered by water)

• Vincenz, Andrzej de, Hentschel, Gerd (2010) “ląd”, in Das Wörterbuch der deutschen Lehnwörter in der polnischen Schrift- und Standardsprache. Von den Anfängen des polnischen Schrifttums bis in die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts‎ (in German), Göttingen und Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag

• ląd in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ląd in Polish dictionaries at PWN