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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots
 
ENTRY:lendh-
DEFINITION:Open land. a. land; island, from Old English land, land; b. bilander, landscape, uitlander, from Middle Dutch land, land; c. auslander, geländesprung, hinterland, landsleit, landsman2, from Old High German lant, land; d. landgrave, landgravine, from Middle Low German lant, country; e. Landsmål, from Old Norse land, land; f. lawn1, from Old French launde, heath, pasture. a–e all from Germanic *landam; f from Germanic, or from Celtic *land-. (Pokorny 3. lendh- 675.)
 
 
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