English

Zululand

From Zulu + land.

A compound of Zulu + land

Proto-Bantu *ìgʊ̀dʊ̀

Zulu izulu ‘sky, heaven’

Zulu uZulu ‘a Zulu clan name or surname’

Zulu uḿZulu ‘Zulu person’

English Zulu

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 region of South Africa with a large Zulu population.

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

Etymograph / Zululand