sandr

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse sandr.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sandr/

Noun

sandr m, inanimate

  1. (geology) sand

Declension
Declension
singular plural
nominative sandr sandry
genitive sandru sandrů
dative sandru sandrům
accusative sandr sandry
vocative sandre sandry
locative sandru sandrech
instrumental sandrem sandry

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): /ˈsɑndr̩/

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
Terms derived from sandr
  • ægisandr (“beach sand”)
  • fjǫrusandr (“beach sand”)
  • gullsandr (“golden sand”)
  • sandasalr (“sea”)
  • sandbakki (“sandbank”)
  • sandbára (“sand-wave”)
  • sandbrekka (“sandy slope”)
  • sandfall (“sandfall (from a volcano)”)
  • sandfjúk, sandfǫnn (“sand-drift”)
  • sandhaf (“desert”)
  • sandheimr (“sea”)
  • sandhiminn (“sea”)
  • sandhóll (“sand-hill”)
  • sandhverfa (“turbot, flat-fish”)
  • sandkoma (“fall of (volcanic) sand”)
  • sandkorn (“grain of sand”)
  • sandlægja (“gray whale”)
  • sandmelr (“sandbank”)
  • sandmigr (“a kind of a clam”)
  • sandló (“sanderling”)
  • sandmǫl (“gravel”)
  • sandsíli (“a kind of a herring”)
  • sandstǫr (“sand sedge”)
  • sandsumar (“sandy summer”)
  • sandtorfa (“sandy sod”)
  • sandvetr (“sandy winter”)
  • sandvíðir (“a kind of a willow”)
  • sandþúfa (“sand-knoll”)
  • sandyrja (“quicksand”)
Terms related to sandr
  • sendinn (“sandy”)
  • sendlingr (“sanderling”)
  • sǫndugr (“sandy”)

Descendants
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sand m
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sand m
  • Swedish: sand c (Old Swedish sander m)

References
  • sandr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sandr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • sandr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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