Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/strandō

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Alternative forms

*stranduz

Etymology

Possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”), and cognate with Old Irish trét (“herd”), Lithuanian trénta (“place, region, direction”).^[1]^[2] Kroonen however assigns no etymology.^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstrɑn.dɔː/

Noun

*strandō f

edge; rim
shore, strand

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *strandō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*strandō	*strandôz
vocative	*strandō	*strandôz
accusative	*strandǭ	*strandōz
genitive	*strandōz	*strandǫ̂
dative	*strandōi	*strandōmaz
instrumental	*strandō	*strandōmiz

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *strand m
- Old English: strand m
  - Middle English: strand, strande, stround, stronde, strond
    - English: strand
    - Scots: strand
    - Yola: sthroane, sthroan, sthrone, stronde
  - → Old French: estrande, estran
- Old Frisian: stran
  - North Frisian:
    Föhr: strun
    
    Hallig: ströön
    
    Helgoland: Strun
    
    Mooring: strönj
  - Saterland Frisian: Strand
  - West Frisian: strân
- Old Saxon: *strand
  - Middle Low German: strant m or n
    - German Low German: Strand m
    - Plautdietsch: Straunt
- Old Dutch: *strand
  - Middle Dutch: strand, strant; strange, strang
    - Dutch: strand
      - Afrikaans: strand
    - → Picard Old French: estranghe
      - → Middle French: estranc, estran
        French: estran
- Old High German: *strant
  - Middle High German: strant, strand m
    - German: Strand
      - → Hungarian: strand
      - → Romanian: ștrand
      - → Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: штранд
        Latin script: štrand
    - Luxembourgish: Strand
Old Norse: strǫnd
- Icelandic: strönd
- Faroese: strond
- Norn: stranjd
- Norwegian Nynorsk: strond, strand; (dialectal) strønd
- Norwegian Bokmål: strand
- Old Swedish: strand
  - Swedish: strand
- Danish: strand
- Gutnish: strand
→? Proto-Finnic: *ranta (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*stranđiz ~ *stranđaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 380
^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*strenđō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 381
^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*strandō-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 482

[1] Vladimir Orel (2003) “*stranđiz ~ *stranđaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 380

[2] Vladimir Orel (2003) “*strenđō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 381

[3] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*strandō-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 482

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