sandr

sandr (plural sandrs)

1. Alternative form of sandur.

• Rands, darns, dsRNA, nards, rDNAs, rands, sdRNA

Borrowed from Old Norse sandr.

• IPA^(key):

sandr m inan

1. (geology) sand

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”).

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

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,

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

• 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 Wikipedia has an article on:

sandr

Wikipedia ^pl

• zandr

Borrowed from Icelandic sandur.

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

sandr m inan (related adjective sandrowy)

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

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