# Land
## English
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ænd

### Proper noun

Land
* 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
* a male given name

#### Declension
## 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: /lɒnd/

### Noun

Land n (plural Länder)
* land
* 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: /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)
* country (territory of a nation)
* state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
* land (real estate or landed property)
* land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
* 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

$^1$Now rare, see notes. $^2$Elevated 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
### Alternative forms

* Lant (Altenhofen spelling)
* lant (Wiesemann spelling)

### 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- + *-om.
Cognate with German, Luxembourgish, and Pennsylvania German Land.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlant/
* Rhymes: -ant
* Syllabification: Land

### Noun

Land n (plural Land or Lenner, diminutive Lendche)
* land (part of Earth not covered by water)
* land (real estate or landed property)
    Synonym: Terreno
* (uncountable) land; soil
    Near-synonym: Grund
    Er zackerd das Land.He ploughs the land.
* (uncountable) terrain
    Evenes LandFlat terrain
* country

#### Related terms

* Ausland
* Deitschland
* England
* Finnland
* Griecheland
* lande
* Landkaart
* Landwertschaft
* Nitterlande
* Russland

### References

* ↑ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Land”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 100, column 2

## 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: /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)
* (uncountable) land
* (countable) country (territory of a nation)
* (countable) state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
* (countable) land (real estate or landed property)
* (uncountable) land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
* (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: /lɑnt/
    Rhymes: -ɑnt

### Noun

Land n (plural Länner)
* (uncountable) land
* country

## Pennsylvania German
### Etymology

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

### Noun

Land n (plural Lenner)
* land
* country
* soil, garden bed