sandr

English

Noun

sandr (plural sandrs)

  1. Alternative form of sandur.

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse sandr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsandr̩]

Noun

sandr m inan

  1. (geology) sand

Declension

Declension of sandr (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative sandr sandry
genitive sandru sandrů
dative sandru sandrům
accusative sandr sandry
vocative sandre, sandře 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)

  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

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

Descendants

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

Further reading

  • 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

Alternative forms

  • zandr

Etymology

Borrowed from Icelandic sandur.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sandr m inan (related adjective sandrowy)

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

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

Further reading

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