aland

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈland/
• Rhymes: -ænd

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 […]

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

• Landa, N.D. Ala., Ndala

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

• ālond
• eiland / eilond
• ēland / ēlond

āland n

1. island