strond

See also: strönd and strǫnd

English

Noun

strond (plural stronds)

(obsolete) A beach; a strand.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: Printed by V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, OCLC 55178895, [Act I, scene i]:
  Yea this mans brow, like to a title leafe, / Foretells the nature of a tragicke volume, / So lookes the ſtrond, whereon the imperious floud, / Hath left a witneſt vſvrpation.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
  Her sunny locks / Hang on her temples like a golden fleece; / Which makes her seat of Belmont, Colchos' strond.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse strǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *strandō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with Lithuanian trénta (“place, region, direction”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /strɔnt/

Noun

strond f (genitive singular strandar, plural strendur)

beach
coast

Declension

f9	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	strond	strondin	strendur	strendurnar
Accusative	strond	strondina	strendur	strendurnar
Dative	strond	strondini	strondum	strondunum
Genitive	strandar	strandarinnar	stranda	strandanna