Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/lendʰ-

 lendʰ- (“land, heath”)

There are various etymologies which point to ‘Proto-Indo-European lendʰ- (“land, heath”)’ - e.g. Proto-Brythonic *lann, Welsh: llan, Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), English land. Presumably lendʰ- (“land, heath”) should be recorded here as a homonym?

Or else, if the two meanings are thought to be ultimately connected, because the “land, heath” meaning derives from comparing the land to the flat of the back, the loins(?), then the Celtic and Germanic words meaning land ought to be listed here? There is a discussion under landa, p195 in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, Delamarre 2003, and he refers to J.E. Rasmussen, SKIdg 547-49.

--Caoimhin (talk) 14:29, 28 September 2017 (UTC)