English

landrail

From land + rail.

A compound of land + rail

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 rail

English rail

Today it means

noun The corncrake, Crex crex.

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

Etymograph / landrail