aland
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- + land.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]aland (not comparable)
- (obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water. [13th–19th c.]
- c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V]:
- I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea […] Why, as Men doe a-land.
- (now rare, poetic) To the land; ashore. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846:
- Henry the Eighth […] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge […]
References
[edit]- “aland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Northern Kurdish
[edit]Verb
[edit]aland
Old Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą.
Noun
[edit]āland n
Inflection
[edit]Declension of āland (neuter a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | āland | āland |
accusative | āland | āland |
genitive | ālandes | ālanda |
dative | ālande | ālandum, ālandem |
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