lond
Appearance
See also: Lond.
Faroese
[edit]Noun
[edit]lond n pl
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.
Alternative forms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]lond (plural londes)
- An independent nation, country or realm.
- A tribe, folk or race; an ethnicity
- A land; territory or locality
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 22–28:
- Ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of ſpeche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand ȝeer, and wordes tho /That hadden pris now wonder nyce and ſtraunge /Us thenketh hem, and ȝet thei ſpake hem so / And ſpedde as wel in loue as men now do / Ek forto wynnen loue in ſondry ages / In ſondry londes, ſondry ben vſages […]
- You also know that the form of language is in flux; / within a thousand years, words / that had currency; really weird and bizarre / they seem to us now, but they still spoke them / and accomplished as much in love as men do now. / As for winning love across ages and / across nations, there are lots of usages […]
- A subdivision or province of a nation.
- A property; a plot of land.
- Agricultural land; land that is suitable for growing crops.
- Planet Earth; the world.
- The earth, ground, or soil (also as one of the medieval elements)
Declension
[edit] Declension of lond
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “lōnd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-22.
Etymology 2
[edit]From londe (noun).
Verb
[edit]lond
- Alternative form of londen
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lond n
- Alternative form of land
Old Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. See there for more.
Noun
[edit]lond n
Declension
[edit]Declension of lond (neuter a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | lond | lond |
accusative | lond | lond |
genitive | londes | londa |
dative | londe | londum, londem |
Descendants
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