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Aland vs Alan - What's the difference?

aland | alan |

As proper nouns the difference between aland and alan

is that aland is while alan is or alan can be (historical) a member of a group of sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium ad who spoke an eastern iranian language derived from scytho-sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern ossetian.

aland

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Adverb

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  • (obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water.
  • *1609 , (William Shakespeare), Pericles , V:
  • *:I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea [...] Why, as Men doe a-land .
  • *c. 1541 , The Chronicle of Calais , London 1846:
  • *:Henry the Eighth [...] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge [...].

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    alan

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wolfhound.

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