lant

lant · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*klān-“liquid, wet ground”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*hlandą“urine”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*hland
4. Old English · inherited fromhland“urine”
5. Middle English · inherited from*land“urine”
6. English todaylant

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English *land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).

lant · noun²

Compare lance.

Lant · proper noun³

1. Middle English · derived fromlanget
2. English todayLant

Perhaps from Middle English langet, a derivative of lang (“long”), denoting someone who lived by a long strip of ground.

Words from the same roots