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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- + land.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
aland (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, V:
- (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 […]
- c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London 1846:
References[edit]
- aland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams[edit]
Kurdish[edit]
Verb[edit]
aland
- First-person singular preterite of alandin.
- Second-person singular preterite of alandin.
- Third-person singular preterite of alandin.
- First-person plural preterite of alandin.
- Second-person plural preterite of alandin.
- Third-person plural preterite of alandin.
Old Frisian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
āland n
Declension[edit]
Declension of āland (neuter a-stem)
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | āland | āland |
accusative | āland | āland |
genitive | ālandes | ālanda |
dative | ālande | ālandum, ālandem |
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- English words prefixed with a-
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- English adverbs
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- English terms with obsolete senses
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- Kurdish non-lemma forms
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