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Land (suffix)
Germanic toponymic suffix
The suffix -land, which can be found in the names of several countries or country subdivisions, indicates a toponymy - a land. The word derived from the Old English land, meaning "ground, soil", and "definite portion of the earth's surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries".
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It evolved from the Proto-Germanic *landą and from the Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- "land, open land, heath". It is also a German, Dutch and North Germanic word with the same meaning as English land. Below is the list of places that ends with "-land" or "Lands". Common name: Derived name: States with limited recognition: Derived name: (Names in Swedish/Names in Finnish) Other places: From Peter Pan From Alice in Wonderland From Middle-Earth: From Chronicles of Narnia
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