sandr
English
Noun
sandr (plural sandrs)
- Alternative form of sandur
Anagrams
- Rands, darns, dsRNA, dsrna, nards, rDNAs, rands, sdRNA, sdrna
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse sandr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sandr/
Noun
sandr m, inanimate
- (geology) sand
Declension
Declension of sandr
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): /ˈsɑ̃ndr̩/
Noun
sandr m (genitive sands, plural sandar)
- 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, […]
- 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:
- (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, […]
- Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar, in 1777, G. Schøning, S. Þ. Thorlacius, Heimskringla, edr Noregs Konunga Sögor, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 229:
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”)
Related terms
Terms related to sandr
- sendinn (“sandy”)
- sendlingr (“sanderling”)
- sǫndugr (“sandy”)
Descendants
- Icelandic: sandur
- → English: sandur
- → German: Sander
- Faroese: sandur
- Norn: sand
- Norwegian: sand
- Old Swedish: sander
- Swedish: sand
- Old Danish: sand
- Danish: sand
- Westrobothnian: sand
- Elfdalian: sand
- Gutnish: sand
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.
Polish
![](Images/wiktionary/Skei%C3%B0ar%C3%A1rsandur%252C_Iceland.jpg.webp)
sandr
Alternative forms
- zandr
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse sandr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sandr/
- Rhymes: -andr
- Syllabification: sandr
Noun
sandr m inan
- (geology) sandur
Declension
Declension of sandr
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | sandr | sandry |
genitive | sandru | sandrów |
dative | sandrowi | sandrom |
accusative | sandr | sandry |
instrumental | sandrem | sandrami |
locative | sandrze | sandrach |
vocative | sandrze | sandry |
Derived terms
adjective
- sandrowy
Further reading
- sandr in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sandr in Polish dictionaries at PWN