laundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French launde (“wooded area”) (French lande), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Doublet of land.

発音

• IPA^(key): /lɔːnd/
  • 韻: -ɔːnd

名詞

laund (複数形 launds)

1. (archaic) A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
   • late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer: (Can we date this quote by Chaucer かつ provide title, author’s full name, かつ other details?)

     In a laund upon an hill of flowers.

   • c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     Through this laund anon the deer will come.

   • 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers:

     About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones,

   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:

     Odon was known to be resting, after completing his motion picture, at the villa of an old American friend, Joseph S. Lavender (the name hails from the laundry, not from the laund).