Dutch Origin
LANDSCAPE
“It is difficult to assess the actual human toll, even in a landscape of toppled trees and houses and bloated farm animals that resembles the devastation of the 2004 tsunami, which killed 181,000 in Asia.” [The New York Times, May 10, 2008,” In Flooded Delta, a Want as Pervasive as Death”]
From Middle Dutch landscap (=region), “land” (=land) + “-scap” (=-ship.) Dutch landschap English
STOVE
“Hill's wife heard the crash and ran outside, leaving the kitchen stove, where she had been cooking, unattended.”[The New York Times, May 9, 2008, “Driver gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket”]
From Middle Dutch stove meaning "heated room” English…
