stronde

Middle English

Alternative forms

• strande, stron, strond, strounde
• strone (Late Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English strand, from Proto-West Germanic *strandu, from Proto-Germanic *strandō.

The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstrɔnd(ə)/, /ˈstrɔːnd(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈstrand(ə)/, /ˈstraːnd(ə)/ (especially Northern)

Noun

stronde (plural strondes)

1. (chiefly Northern) beach, shoreline
   • late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:

     Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
     And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
     To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

     Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
     And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
     To distant shrines well known in distant lands.

Descendants

• English: strand (obsolete strond)
• Scots: strand
• Yola: sthroane, sthroan, sthrone, stronde

References

• “strō̆nd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Yola

Noun

stronde

1. alternative form of sthroane

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎, volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136