strond

Noun

strond (plural stronds)

1. (obsolete) A beach; a strand.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: Printed by V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, OCLC 55178895, [Act I]:

     So looks the strond whereon the imperious flood / Hath left a witness'd usurpation.

   • c. 1596–1598, W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the Extreme Cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in Cutting a Iust Pound of His Flesh. And the Obtaining of Portia, by the Choyce of Three Caskets, quarto edition, [London]: Printed by J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, OCLC 24594216, [Act I]:

     Her sunny locks / Hang on her temples like a golden fleece; / Which makes her seat of Belmont, Colchos' strond.

Etymology

From Old Norse strǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *strandō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with Lithuanian trénta (“place, region, direction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strɔnt/

Noun

strond f (genitive singular strandar, plural strendur)

1. beach
2. coast