A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Skeat Walter William
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land. + Du. Icel. Dan. Swed. Goth. G. land. Der. up-land, out-land-ish. landau, a kind of coach. (G.) Said to be named from Landau, a town in Bavaria. Land is cognate with £. land; G. au is cognate with i- in M. E. i-land ; see Island. landgrave, a count of a province. (Du.) Du. latidgraaf. — Du. land, land ; graaf, a count. Der. landgrav-ine, from Du. land- graving fern, of landgraaf % see Margrave. landrail, a bird ; see Bail (3). landscape. (Du.) Formerly landskip ; borrowed from Dutch paint...ers.— Du. land- schap, a landscape, a province. — Du. land, land ; and -schap, a suffix corresponding to E. -ship in friend-ship, derived from the verb which we spell shape, ^f The Du. sch sounds to us more like sk than sh\ hence our spelling with sc. lansquenet, a German foot-soldier, a game at cards. (F. — G.) F. lansquenet, * a lance-knight [a misspelling] or German footman ; ' Cot — G. landsknecht, a foot- soldier. — G. lands, put for landes, gen. of land, country ; knecht, a soldier (E.
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