Sandwich

See also: sandwich and sándwich

English

Etymology

The family name is from Old English Sandwiċæ, from sand + wīc (“wick, settlement, harbour, hamlet”).

Proper noun

Sandwich

1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, southeastern England, United Kingdom, one of the historic Cinque Ports (OS grid ref TR3258).
2. An English habitational surname originating from this town.
3. One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
   1. A city in DeKalb County and Kendall County, Illinois, United States.
   2. A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
   3. A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.

Derived terms

• Earldom of Sandwich
• Earl of Sandwich
• sandwich
• Sandwich Island
• Sandwich Islands
• South Sandwich Islands

 

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German

Sandwich

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛndvɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈzɛndvɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈsɛntwɪt͡ʃ/

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Noun

Sandwich n or (also in Germany) m (strong, genitive Sandwichs or Sandwiches or Sandwich, plural Sandwichs or Sandwiches or Sandwiche)

1. sandwich (snack)

Declension

Declension of Sandwich [neuter // masculine (also in Germany), strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das, der	Sandwich	die	Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwiche
genitive	eines	des	Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwich	der	Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwiche
dative	einem	dem	Sandwich, Sandwiche1	den	Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwichen
accusative	ein, einen	das, den	Sandwich	die	Sandwichs, Sandwiches, Sandwiche

¹Now rare, see notes.

Usage notes

• The German word is commonly used only for more richly filled sandwiches, typically with salad and sauce, normally featuring toasted bread or a bread roll. Plainer variants with traditional German bread go by a variant of regional German names like Stulle. Variants with a bread roll often go simply by Brötchen (“bread roll”).
• The noun is generally neuter, but may be treated as masculine by some speakers.
• The inflected forms above are loosely ordered by frequency. The plural is usually Sandwiches in formal writing, but the two alternative plurals are equally frequent in common usage.

Further reading

• “Sandwich” in Duden online
• “Sandwich” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Plautdietsch

Noun

Sandwich f

1. sandwich