Etymograph

English

husbandland

Husbandland comes from Middle English husbondeland.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500husbondeland
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988husbandland

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500husbondeland
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988husbandland

Earliest quotation: 1988, Edward Miller, Social Structure: Northern England: “The complexity of a man’s relationship to lord and…”

A compound of husband + land

Old English hūsbonda ‘master of the house’

Middle English husbonde ‘a husband’

English husband

Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ‘land’

Proto-Germanic *landą

Proto-West Germanic *land ‘land’

Old English land

Middle English lond ‘an independent nation’

English land

Every English word from Middle English husbondeland

Today it means

noun The landholding of a husbandman, that is, a manorial tenant.

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

Etymograph / Middle English husbondeland / husbandland

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