Sandwich

See also: sandwich and sándwich

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Sandwich

1. A town in Kent, south-east England, one of the historic Cinque Ports.
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. Sandwich, Massachusetts.
   2. Sandwich, Illinois.
   3. Sandwich, New Hampshire.

Derived terms

• sandwich
• Sandwich Islands

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German

Sandwich

Etymology

Borrowing from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

Sandwich n, m (genitive Sandwiches or Sandwichs or Sandwich, plural Sandwiches or Sandwichs or Sandwiche)

1. sandwich (snack)

Usage notes

• The German word is commonly used only for more richly filled sandwiches, typically with salad and sauce, normally featuring toast 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