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Noun

sandr m, inanimate

1. (geology) sand

Declension

Old Norse

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑndr̩/

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”).

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, […]

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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.