English

Parkland

From park + land, see parkland.

Formed from park + land

Frankish *parruk ‘enclosure, pen, fence’

Medieval Latin parcus

Old French parc ‘livestock pen’

Middle English park ‘enclosure’

English park

Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ‘land’

Proto-Germanic *landą

Proto-West Germanic *land ‘land’

Old English land

Middle English lond ‘an independent nation’

English land

Today it means

name A neighborhood of Calgary, Alberta.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Parkland