stronde

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English strand, from Proto-West Germanic *strandu, from Proto-Germanic *strandō.

The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstrɔnd(ə)/, /ˈstrɔːnd(ə)/
  • IPA(key): /ˈstrand(ə)/, /ˈstraːnd(ə)/ (especially Northern)

Noun

stronde (plural strondes)

  1. (chiefly Northern) beach, shoreline
    • late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:
      Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
      And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
      To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
      Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
      And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
      To distant shrines well known in distant lands.

Descendants

  • English: strand (obsolete strond)
  • Scots: strand
  • Yola: sthroane, sthroan, sthrone, stronde

References

Yola

Noun

stronde

  1. alternative form of sthroane

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136