launde

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === lande, lawnde === Etymology === Borrowed from Anglo-Norman lande, launde, from Late Latin *landa, from Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Doublet of lond; first attested in c. 1330. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlau̯nd(ə)/ === Noun === launde (plural laundes) A glade or clearing; a grassy plain surrounded by woodland. A plain; flat, uncultivated, and unforested land. ==== Descendants ==== English: lawn; laund ==== References ==== “laund(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.