sandr

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse sandr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sandr/

Noun

, inanimate

1. (geology) sand

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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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑndr̩/

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

Terms derived from sandr

• ægisandr (“beach sand”)
• fjǫrusandr (“beach sand”)
• gullsandr (“golden sand”)
• sandasalr (“sea”)
• sandbakki (“sandbank”)
• sandbára (“sand-wave”)
• sandbrekka (“sandy slope”)
• sandfall (“sandfall (from a volcano)”)
• sandfjúk, sandfǫnn (“sand-drift”)
• sandhaf (“desert”)
• sandheimr (“sea”)
• sandhiminn (“sea”)
• sandhóll (“sand-hill”)
• sandhverfa (“turbot, flat-fish”)
• sandkoma (“fall of (volcanic) sand”)

• sandkorn (“grain of sand”)
• sandlægja (“gray whale”)
• sandmelr (“sandbank”)
• sandmigr (“a kind of a clam”)
• sandló (“sanderling”)
• sandmǫl (“gravel”)
• sandsíli (“a kind of a herring”)
• sandstǫr (“sand sedge”)
• sandsumar (“sandy summer”)
• sandtorfa (“sandy sod”)
• sandvetr (“sandy winter”)
• sandvíðir (“a kind of a willow”)
• sandþúfa (“sand-knoll”)
• sandyrja (“quicksand”)

Related terms

Terms related to sandr

• sendinn (“sandy”)
• sendlingr (“sanderling”)

• sǫndugr (“sandy”)

Descendants

• Danish: sand n (Old Danish sand m)
• Faroese: sandur m
• Icelandic: sandur m

• Norwegian Bokmål: sand m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sand m
• Swedish: sand c (Old Swedish sander m)

References

• “sandr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sandr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• sandr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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Polish

sandr

Alternative forms

• zandr

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse sandr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sandr/

Noun

sandr m inan

1. (geology) sandur

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

Derived terms

• (adjective) sandrowy

Further reading

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