Talk:-landia
Latest comment: 10 years ago by Atitarev in topic -landia
RFD 2014
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rfd of the English section only.
Created by a contributor notorious for his bad lexicographic judgment and tendency to make things up, for the sole purpose of adding to the etymology of Gringolandia, which seems to be a borrowing from Spanish, not an English coinage.
I started to add this to rfv, but word elements are very hard to verify, and this seems to be based on a misanalysis of a real word rather than a protologism. Chuck Entz (talk) 19:16, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
- Portlandia exists with this string of letters at the end of it, but it is definitely Portland+-ia, not *Port+-landia. Warlandia and Lovelandia might be citable via Google Groups. - -sche (discuss) 20:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
- Not sure about this sense, but I added and cited a different sense of the suffix. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 22:07, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
- Kept with -land. --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 01:04, 4 April 2014 (UTC)