aland

See also: Aland, Áland, Alánd, and Åland

English

Etymology

From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- +‎ land.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈland/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Adverb

aland (not comparable)

1. (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.

2. (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

• “aland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Landa, N.D. Ala., Nadal, Ndala

Northern Kurdish

Verb

aland

1. first/second/third-person singular/plural preterite of alandin

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ālond
• eiland / eilond
• ēland / ēlond

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą.

Noun

āland n

1. island

Inflection

Declension of āland (neuter a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	āland	āland
accusative	āland	āland
genitive	ālandes	ālanda
dative	ālande	ālandum, ālandem