land

• n. 土地；陸地；地面
• vt.上陸する；罠にかける；追い払う
• vi. 着地する；到達する
• n. （土地の）人名；（英語、ドイツ語、ポルトガル語、スウェーデン語）Rand.

PIE *landh（土地、荒野）が語源で、語源的には芝生と同じ。

land

land: [OE] Land goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *landam. This seems originally to have meant ‘particular (enclosed) area’ (ancestor of the modern sense ‘nation’), but in due course it branched out to ‘solid surface of the earth in general’. The term is now common to all the Germanic languages, and it has distant relatives in Welsh llan ‘enclosure, church’ and Breton lann ‘heath’ (source of French lande ‘heath, moor’, from which English gets lawn).
=> lawn

land (n.)

Old English land, lond, "ground, soil," also "definite portion of the earth's surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries," from Proto-Germanic *landom (cognates: Old Norse, Old Frisian Dutch, Gothic land, German Land), from PIE *lendh- "land, heath" (cognates: Old Irish land, Middle Welsh llan "an open space," Welsh llan "enclosure, church," Breton lann "heath," source of French lande; Old Church Slavonic ledina "waste land, heath," Czech lada "fallow land").

Etymological evidence and Gothic use indicates the original sense was "a definite portion of the earth's surface owned by an individual or home of a nation." Meaning early extended to "solid surface of the earth," which had been the sense of the root of Modern English earth. Original sense of land in English is now mostly found under country. To take the lay of the land is a nautical expression. In the American English exclamation land's sakes (1846) land is a euphemism for Lord.

land (v.1)

"to bring to land," early 13c., from land (n.). Originally of ships; of fish, in the angling sense, from 1610s; hence figurative sense of "to obtain" (a job, etc.), first recorded 1854. Of aircraft, attested from 1916. Related: Landed; landing.

land (v.2)

"to make contact, to hit home" (of a blow, etc.), by 1881, perhaps altered from lend in a playful sense, or else an extension of land (v.1).

1. The letter merely restated the law of the land .

この手紙は土地法を繰り返したにすぎない。

2.Harry inherited the house and a sizeable chunk of land .

ハリーはこの家とかなり大きな土地を相続した。

3.They used force to banish the natives from the more fertile land .

彼らは武力を使って先住民を比較的肥沃な土地から追放した。

4.The fires are likely to permanently deforest the land .

これらの火災はこの土地の森を完全に破壊する可能性が高い。

5.Their mission is simply to scout places where helicopters can land .

彼らの任務はヘリコプターを着陸させることができる場所を見つけることだけだ。