Land

See also: land, länd, lǟnd, and -land

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænd

Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• Land camera
• Land effect

Albanian

Alternative forms

• Landi

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Land m

1. a male given name

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).

Pronunciation

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /lɒnd/

Noun

Land n (plural Länder)

1. land
2. country

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/

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• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

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)

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

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.

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
• Hohenzollernsche Lande n pl
• Inland
• Landesgrenze
• Landesteil
• Landesvater
• Landesverfassung
• Landesverrat
• landlos
• Landschaft
• 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

 

Descendants

• → Ladin: lont
• → Polish: ląd

Further reading

• “Land” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Land” in Duden online
• “Land” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Land”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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/

Noun

Land n (plural Lenner)

1. land
2. country

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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)

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑnt/

  Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

Land n (plural Länner)

1. (uncountable) land
2. country

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

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

Noun

Land n (plural Lenner)

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