sund

Regional variety of standard Dutch zonde.

sund

1. pity, a shame

From Old Norse sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”). Related to svimja.

sund n (genitive singular sunds, plural sund)

1. (geography) sound, channel

From Old Norse sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundą, from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”).

• IPA^(key): /sʏnt/

  Rhymes: -ʏnt

sund n (genitive singular sunds, nominative plural sund)

1. (uncountable) swimming, the act of swimming
2. channel, strait, sound
3. alley, lane

• eiði

From Old Norse sund

sund n (definite singular sundet, indefinite plural sund, definite plural sunda or sundene)

1. sound, strait, channel

• strede

• “sund” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse sund

sund n (definite singular sundet, indefinite plural sund, definite plural sunda)

1. sound, strait, channel

• “sund” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *sundą, from pre-Germanic *swm-to- ( > English swim). Cognate with Old Norse sund (Norwegian sund (“swimming, strait”)).

• IPA^(key): /sund/

sund n (nominative plural sund)

1. swimming

   Þū neart ġenōg eald þæt þū āna on sund gā.

   You're not old enough to go swimming by yourself.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"

     God sealde þām fixum sund and þām fuglum flyht, ac hē ne sealde nānum nīetene ne nānum fisċe nāne sāwle, ac heora blōd is heora līf, and swā hraðe swā hīe bēoþ dēade, swā bēoþ hīe mid ealle ġeendode.

     God gave swimming to the fish and flight to the birds, but he did not give a soul to any animal or any fish. Their blood is their life, and as soon as they’re dead, they have totally ended.

2. (poetic) sea, water

• sundwudu

• English: sound

• sunda
• sunna
• sunt

Cognate with Welsh hwn (“this”) and Proto-Celtic *sindos (“this”) (see sin and in).

• IPA^(key): /sun͈d/

sund

1. here (in this place)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 24a38

     Ní epur a n-anman sund.

     I do not say their names here.

2. here (to this place), hither

From Old Swedish sunder, from Middle Low German sunt.

• IPA^(key): /sɵnd/

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sund

1. sound, healthy (medically or mentally)

• sundhet

From Old Norse sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundą, from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥tóm.

sund n

1. sound, strait (narrow water)

• Used alone, sundet refers to Öresund between Denmark and Sweden.