English

land slug

From land + slug.

A compound of land + slug

Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ‘land’

Proto-Germanic *landą

Proto-West Germanic *land ‘land’

Old English land

Middle English lond ‘an independent nation’

English land

Middle English slugge ‘lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness’

English slug

Today it means

noun A terrestrial slug.

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

Etymograph / land slug