Translation
national border; frontier
Word origin
Built rather than borrowed: lando, from German Land, plus limo, from Latin limes, the boundary line of a Roman province. English limit and the Roman limes come from the same Latin word.
- Origin
- compound of lando and limo
- Root
- Land + limes
- English cognates
- land, limit
Examples
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The train stopped at the border.
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Two soldiers guard the border between the two countries.
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Without a passport you cannot cross the border.
This one comes apart cleanly, and it comes apart from the right. is the
head - a is a kind of - and land- is there to say which
kind. That is the whole of the head-final rule set out in
compound words, and the reason a learner who
has met and needs no dictionary for the third word.
on its own is any boundary: the edge of a field, the limit of your
patience, the point past which a joke stops being funny. Adding land- narrows
it to the political line on the map, with the customs post and the queue and the
stamp in the passport. Esperanto builds several of these on the same head:
urbolimo the city boundary, tempolimo a deadline, rapidlimo a speed limit.
You will also see landolimo, with the linking -o- left in. Both are correct
and both are used; the compounding article explains when the vowel earns its
place, and the short answer here is that is pronounceable without it,
so most writers drop it. The adjective is landlima - a landlima town is a
border town.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 44.