sundor

See also: sundor-

Old English

Alternative forms

• sunder, synder

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sundr, from Proto-Germanic *sundraz, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsun.dor/

Adverb

sundor

1. apart, alone, by one's self
2. separate or separately
3. differently
4. privately

Synonyms

• ġedǣledlīċe

Derived terms

• onsundrum (“singly, separately, apart: privately: especially, in sunder”)
• sunderanweald m (“monarchy”)
• sunderfolgoþ m (“private office”)
• sunderfrēodōm, sunderfrēols m (“privilege”)
• sunderlīpes (“separately”)
• sundermǣlum (“separately, singly”)
• sundermēd f (“private meadow”)
• sunderstōw f (“special place”)
• sundrian (“to separate, sunder”)
• synderlīċ

Related Terms

• sundor-
• āsundran, āsundrian (“to divide, separate, disjoin, sever; distinguish, except. asunder”)
• āsyndrung f (“division”)

Descendants

• Middle English: sunder
  • English: sunder
  • Scots: sinder

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “sundor”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sundor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.