Etymology

portland

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Today it means: The land around a port Full definition →

Middle English Portland ← Old English Portland ← Proto-West Germanic *land
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portland · noun1

From port + land.

Portland · proper noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pértus
  3. Proto-Italic*portus
  4. Latinportus
  5. Old Englishport
  6. Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
  7. Proto-Germanic*landą
  8. Proto-West Germanic*land
  9. Old Englishland
  10. Old EnglishPortland
  11. Middle EnglishPortland
  12. English todayPortland

Inherited from Middle English Portland. By surface analysis, port + land.

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