sandr

English

Noun

sandr (plural sandrs)

1. Alternative form of sandur.

Anagrams

• Rands, darns, dsRNA, nards, rDNAs, rands, sdRNA

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.

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”)

Related terms

• 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
  • Swedish: sand
• Old Danish: sand
  • 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

sandr

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^[1] (in Polish)
• sandr in PWN's encyclopedia