sandr

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English

Noun

sandr (plural sandrs)

  1. Alternative form of sandur.

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse sandr.

Pronunciation

Noun

sandr m inan

  1. (geology) sand

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *samdaz (sand). Cognate with Old English sand, Old Frisian sand, Old Saxon sand, Old Dutch sant, Old High German sant.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos (sand).

Pronunciation

  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈsɑ̃ndr̩/

Noun

sandr m (genitive sands, plural sandar)

  1. sand
    • Vǫluspá, verse 3, lines 3-4, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
      vara sandr né sær / né svalar unnir,
      was there no sand nor sea / nor gelid waves,
  2. (in the plural) sandbanks, sands, sandy ground
    • Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar, in 1777, G. Schøning, S. Þ. Thorlacius, Heimskringla, edr Noregs Konunga Sögor, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 229:
      var þá ecki segir hann, nema sandar oc öræfl,
      there was, he says, nothing save sands and wilderness,

Declension

Declension of sandr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sandr sandrinn sandar sandarnir
accusative sand sandinn sanda sandana
dative sandi sandinum sǫndum sǫndunum
genitive sands sandsins sanda sandanna

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Icelandic: sandur
    • English: sandur
    • German: Sander
  • Faroese: sandur
  • Norn: sand
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sand
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sand
  • Old Swedish: sander
  • Old Danish: sand
  • Elfdalian: sand
  • Gutnish: sand

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “sandr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 512
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sandr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 349; also available at the Internet Archive

Polish

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sandr

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Icelandic sandur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsandr/
  • Rhymes: -andr
  • Syllabification: sandr

Noun

sandr m inan (related adjective sandrowy)

  1. (geology) sandur (plain created by the outwash of glacial meltwater)

Declension

Further reading

  • sandr in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • sandr in PWN's encyclopedia