zand

From Middle Dutch sant, from Old Dutch *sant, from Proto-West Germanic *samd, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sámh₂dʰos.

Compare Low German Sand, West Frisian sand, German Sand, English sand, Danish sand.

• IPA^(key): /zɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: zand
• Rhymes: -ɑnt
• Homophone: Zand

zand n (uncountable)

1. sand

   Het zand was warm onder onze voeten.

   The sand was warm beneath our feet.

   Ze bouwden een kasteel van zand op het strand.

   They built a sand castle on the beach.

   De kinderen speelden in het zand.

   The children were playing in the sand.

- general:

- toponyms:

• Afrikaans: sand
• Berbice Creole Dutch: sandi
• Negerhollands: sand, san
• Skepi Creole Dutch: sant
• → Papiamentu: santu
• → Saramaccan: sándu
• → Sranan Tongo: santi
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: santi
  • → Caribbean Javanese: santi

• zan, zant, tænd

From Proto-West Germanic *tanþ.

zand m

1. (anatomy) A tooth.

• Middle High German: zan, zant
  • Alemannic German: Zah
  • Bavarian: Zåhn, Zant
  • Central Franconian: Zank, Zand

    Kölsch: Zant

  • German: Zahn
    • → Central Franconian: Zahn
  • Hunsrik: Zaan
  • Luxembourgish: Zant
  • Pennsylvania German: Zaah
  • Swabian: Zah, Zai
  • Vilamovian: cōn
  • Yiddish: צאָן (tson)
• → Italian: zanna (via Lombardic)

1. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
2. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014