Etymology

landwards

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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 todaylandwards

From land + -wards.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.