lond

See also: Lond.

Faroese

Noun

lond n pl

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of land

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Alternative forms

• land, laund, lande, londe
• loand (Early Middle English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̝ːnd/, /lɔnd/, /land/, /laːnd/

Noun

lond (plural londes or lond)

1. An independent nation, country or realm.
2. A tribe, folk or race; an ethnicity
3. A land; territory or locality
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 22–28:

     Ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of ſpeche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand ȝeer, and wordes tho /That hadden pris now wonder nyce and ſtraunge /Us thenketh hem, and ȝet thei ſpake hem so / And ſpedde as wel in loue as men now do / Ek forto wynnen loue in ſondry ages / In ſondry londes, ſondry ben vſages […]

     You also know that the form of language is in flux; / within a thousand years, words / that had currency; really weird and bizarre / they seem to us now, but they still spoke them / and accomplished as much in love as men do now. / As for winning love across ages and / across nations, there are lots of usages […]

4. A subdivision or province of a nation.
5. A property; a plot of land.
6. Agricultural land; land that is suitable for growing crops.
7. Planet Earth; the world.
8. The earth, ground, or soil (also as one of the medieval elements)

Declension

Declension of lond

	singular	plural
(nominative/accusative)	lond	londes, lond
genitive	londes	londes, londe, *londene
dative	londe1	londen2

¹Optional; mostly fossilised after Early Middle English.
²Only found in Early Middle English and optional there.

Related terms

• Engelond
• ilond
• Irlond
• Iseland
• landbok
• landlorde
• lond folk
• londen
• londyng
• maynlond
• Nomanneslond
• Northumberlond

Descendants

• English: land
• Scots: laund, land
• Yola: lhoan, lloan, loan, lone, londe

References

• “lōnd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 May 2018.

Etymology 2

From londe (noun).

Verb

lond

1. alternative form of londen

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lond/

Noun

lond n

1. alternative form of land

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	lond	lond
accusative	lond	lond
genitive	londes	londa
dative	londe	londum

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• land

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. See there for more.

Noun

lond n

1. land

Declension

Declension of lond (neuter a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	lond	lond
accusative	lond	lond
genitive	londes	londa
dative	londe	londum, londem

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Fohr: lun

  Hallig: löön

  Heligoland: Lun

  Mooring: lönj

• Saterland Frisian: Lound
• West Frisian: lân