aland

See also Aland, Åland, and Áland

English

Etymology

From on land, with reduction of the first element.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /əˈland/

Adverb

aland (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water. [13th-19th c.]
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, V:

     I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea [...] Why, as Men doe a-land.

2. (now rare, poetic) To the land; ashore. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London 1846:

     Henry the Eighth [...] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge [...].

References

• aland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• Ndala, N.D. Ala.

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Kurdish

Verb

aland

1. First-person singular preterite of alandin.
2. Second-person singular preterite of alandin.
3. Third-person singular preterite of alandin.
4. First-person plural preterite of alandin.
5. Second-person plural preterite of alandin.
6. Third-person plural preterite of alandin.

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Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ālond
• eiland / eilond
• ēland / ēlond

Noun

āland n

1. island

Declension

Declension of aland (strong a-stem, neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	āland	āland
accusative	āland	āland
genitive	ālandes	ālanda
dative	ālande	ālandum, ālandem