Etymograph

English

landsickness

From land + sickness.

A compound of land + sickness

Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ‘land’

Proto-Germanic *landą

Proto-West Germanic *land ‘land’

Old English land

Middle English lond ‘an independent nation’

English land

Proto-Germanic *seukaną ‘to be sick’

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Proto-West Germanic *seuk ‘sick’

Old English sēoc ‘sick’

Old English sēocnes ‘sickness, disease’

Middle English sikness

English sickness

Today it means

noun A form of motion sickness experienced on land after an extended period spent at sea

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

Etymograph / landsickness