Noun: ealand
Gender: n
Nominative
| Singular | ēaland |
| Plural | ēaland |
Genitive
| Singular | ēalandes |
| Plural | ēalanda |
Dative
| Singular | ēalande |
| Plural | ēalandum |
Accusative
| Singular | ēaland |
| Plural | ēaland |
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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...þis ēalond hafað myċele lengran dagas on sumera, ⁊ swā ēac nihta on wintra, þonne ðā sūðdǣlas middanġeardes. (...this island has much longer days in the summer, and equally longer nights in the winter, than the southern parts of the world..)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą. Cognate with Old Frisian alond, āland, eiland, Old Norse eyland. See: Old Norse Nouns '
eyland'.
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