landnam
/ˈlændnɑm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the forests after the exhaustion of the plot."
- "On marginal landscapes and during unsettled times, the initial impact of landnam might lade away, and a new landnam would have to restart the sequence."
- "Dyvik (Dyvik 1978: 34–5), who revised older theories about breaking and back mutation in North Germanic, assumed a common basis for the tendency towards breaking in pre-stages of Old English and Old Norse, which he dated very early, to the times before the landnam of the Anglo-Saxons."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: landnám
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlændnɑm/
- British English: /ˈlandnam/