Land
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch land and German Land .
wiktionary
From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond(“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą(“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-(“land, heath”).
Cognate with Scots laund(“land”), West Frisian lân(“land”), Dutch land(“land, country”), German Land(“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land(“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land(“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann(“heath”), Welsh llan(“enclosure”), Breton lann(“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо(lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda(“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë(“heath, grassland”).
From Old English hland.
etymonline
land (n.)
Old English lond, land, "ground, soil," also "definite portion of the earth's surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries," from Proto-Germanic *landja- (source also of Old Norse, Old Frisian Dutch, Gothic land, German Land), perhaps from PIE *lendh- (2) "land, open land, heath" (source also of Old Irish land, Middle Welsh llan "an open space," Welsh llan "enclosure, church," Breton lann "heath," source of French lande; Old Church Slavonic ledina "waste land, heath," Czech lada "fallow land"). But Boutkan finds no IE etymology and suspects a substratum word in Germanic,
Etymological evidence and Gothic use indicates the original Germanic sense was "a definite portion of the earth's surface owned by an individual or home of a nation." The meaning was early extended to "solid surface of the earth," a sense which once had belonged to the ancestor of Modern English earth (n.). Original senses of land in English now tend to go with country. To take the lay of the land is a nautical expression. In the American English exclamation land's sakes (1846) land is a euphemism for Lord.
land (v.1)
Old English lendan "to bring to land" (transitive), early 13c., from the source of land (n.). Intransitive sense "come to shore, go ashore, disembark" is from c. 1200. Spelling and pronunciation probably were influenced by the noun. Originally of ships; of fish, in the angling sense, from 1610s; hence figurative sense of "to obtain" (a job, etc.), first recorded 1854. Of aircraft, attested from 1916. Related: Landed; landing.
land (v.2)
"to make contact, to hit home" (of a blow, etc.), by 1881, perhaps altered from lend (v.) in a playful sense, or else a sense extension of land (v.1).
