aland

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See also: Aland, Áland, Alánd, and Åland

English

Etymology

From Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- +‎ land.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 287: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /əˈland/
  • Rhymes: -ænd

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

Anagrams

Kurdish

Verb

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  1. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 287: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  2. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 287: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  3. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 287: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  4. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 287: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  5. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 287: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
  6. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 287: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Noun

āland n

  1. island

Inflection

Declension of āland (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative āland āland
genitive ālandes ālanda
dative ālande ālandum, ālandem
accusative āland āland
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