sund
Icelandic
/sʏnt/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) swimming, the act of swimming
- channel, strait, sound
- alley, lane
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse sund (swimming, sound, strait) inherited from Proto-Germanic *sundą (sound, a swim, body of water, swimming) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (swimming, sea).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*swem-
Gloss
swimming, sea
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
海
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *swem(bh)- Proto-Indo-European
- *swem(bʰ)-, *swembʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *swem- Proto-Indo-European
- sund Norwegian Bokmål
- *sundą Proto-Germanic
- *swimmaną Proto-Germanic
- sund Norwegian Nynorsk
- sund Old English
- sund- Old English
- sund Old Norse
- sund Danish
- sonder Old French
- bringa Icelandic
- bringusund Icelandic
- gleraugu Icelandic
- laug Icelandic
- sundgleraugu Icelandic
- sundlaug Icelandic
- sundþjálfari Icelandic
- synda Icelandic
- þjálfari Icelandic
- sund Faroese