Etymology

-land

Today it means: Used to form the name of a territory, country, or region. Full definition →

English land ← Middle English lond ← Old English land
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*landą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*land
  4. Old Englishland
  5. Middle Englishlond
  6. Englishland
  7. English today-land

From land.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.